Over a couple days starting with its launch July 28, Cuil gained unprecedented media attention for a startup, crashed when too many people tried to access its search engine and angered people by not putting the correct pictures with some search results.   

Three weeks later it is clear that the company, which aims to one-up established search providers Google, Yahoo and Microsoft by indexing more than 120 billion Web pages and providing meaningful pictures next to search results, has made some considerable improvements with regard to the pictures it places with results.   

For example, Trenton Baker, a marketing manager for network storage vendor Aberdeen LLC, told me July 29 that several of his company's industry-specific search results ended up with misused Web site photos and misleading content results.

At that time, a search for "Storage Servers" returned a news release about a product from Aberdeen rival SMC Networks. Yet the product picture Cuil gives for this result is lifted from an array on Aberdeen's front page. When you clicked on the picture link, instead of going to www.aberdeeninc.com, you were taken to the SMC press release.

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