Cuil search engine

By Bjorn Landfeldt

I just tried Cuil, a new search engine from some former Google people. The interface is nice, the search results are laid out side by side in columns with example pictures from pages. I found a curiosity though, simple searches such as "Sydney university or "Cuil" yields replies in no time whereas complex searches such as "Salvo rebel 12w LED" yields an error message saying something like our servers are overloaded at the moment. Could it be that the search algorithms are somewhat complex and this is the price to pay?