Out there on yonder intarwebs, a few voices have wondered whether the new Cuil search engine is a prank, hoax, or detached vestigial organ destined to be reabsorbed back into Mothership Google (I made that last part up). While “Cuil” looks more like “Cooyeel” than its intended “Cool” pronunciation, pages keep popping up as to some mighty LULarious search results.

For example, take “cobol”. Then “lolcats”. I gotta say, Cuil’s “Safe Search” is HORRENDOUSLY DISAPPOINTING. I tried it on and off with a number of bawdy 4-letter words, and got the same 1st pages of results.

On a positive note (because I love those), I’m using Cuil to find my name in unexpected pages and embarrassing old photos (you’ll have to search for them, muhahaha!); it can’t just be me — I’d actually value a parody search engine of venerable utility.