[Idea15]

Lynne, you inspired me to check for my business. On the first page of results there were lots of dodgy listings from near.co.uk, a list farm site with no contact information or opt-out (read: idiots). Their information is fed by Thomson Local - who charge you to include a web URL in a basic listing - so their site has several pages listing web site designers but no links to any of them, rendering those pages completely useless. But those pages rank on the first results page of Cuil. I would hope that sites in my portfolio and my business blog would rank higher in a search for my business name than an autogenerated page which lists me as "Web Design Near Some Town Five Hours Away."

Worse than that, in the one search result which actually lists a page on my web site, there is a little thumbnail graphic next to it which says "Do It Myself Templates" - which not only do I not offer, but the "do it yourself template" way of web design goes against everything I and my business stand for. Where this graphic came from, I don't know, but it misrepresents my business.

So that's two thumbs down (and two fingers up) to Cuil from me.