Cuil ! A New Search Engine

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Are you tired up of using current search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask, Amazone.com, etc..., Here's a new search engine "Cuil", the start-up founded by Tom Costello and two former Google employees: Anna Patterson and Russell Power.

Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. Now, it's boasting time. For starters, Cuil's search index spans 120 billion Web pages.

Funded by $30 million from investors, the site also boasts a more "magazine-style" index -- instead of one-line listings, there are descriptive chunks of text with photos with options to explore by categories automatically generated based on the search data, as well as tabs that "guess" more specifics about the user's search.

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Cuil won't divulge the formula it has developed to cover a wider swath of the Web with far fewer computers than Google.Regarding ranking, Cuil combines metrics that measure popularity with information about the context of each web page. "Cuil prefers to find all the pages with your keyword or phrase and then analyze the rest of the content on those pages. During this analysis we discover that your keywords have different meanings in different contexts. Once we've established the context of the pages, we're in a much better position to help you in your search."

A search for movie times (no quotes) on Google brings up Fandango, movies.msn.com and movies.aol.com. On Cuil, a search brings up those listings, but also a Times of London story about Stephen Hawking appearing in a movie.

The most striking new idea is the way search results are formatted. Instead of the ten blue links displayed linearly, Cuil makes better use of the space by using columns. The search engine also shows thumbnails next to some of the results, but they don't always represent images included in the adjacent web page. Another interesting idea is the explorative category section that shows related Wikipedia categories and topics. Cuil has an excellent auto-complete feature and it displays a list of related searches using an design pattern that suggests exploration.
Google, Yahoo and their ilk are not just places people go to search for information, but, rather, online destinations where they can search Web pages, video and images, as well as keep e-mail accounts and check out news portals.

[mickey demaio]

Any ways,, it depends on the user to decide which is good, is it Google or CUIL. After a day of searching on Cuil and comparing those results to Google, Google wins out every time, returning more results and more relevant results.

It's probably not fair to compare Cuil with Google, but when Google was launched, users could see substantially better results. Cuil returns results that are either similar to Google's results or substantially worse. In some cases, the site doesn't return any result for your queries, probably because of the huge traffic from the launch day.

After a day of searching on Cuil and comparing those results to Google, Google wins out every time, returning more results and more relevant results.

Find CUIL here !!!