Of course the first thing I did is search Cuil on my important keywords for my own long-standing, relevant website. Horrors, my site is nowhere to be found. Even unknown sites that reprint my articles appear before me. Other sites appear three times in their results.

Now my site is unspammy, useful and real, so has no real reason to be banned or penalised by Cuil. Except for possibly the fact it uses Google's Adsense for a major part of it's revenue stream. But is also appears Adwords clients do well in the Cuils SERP's.

So, question is - is Cuil penalising Adsense advertisers and rewarding Adwords publishers? I'm sure some former, possibly disgruntled, Google employees wouldn't want to help fill Google's bulging coffers.