Cuil(cool) New Search Engine
Former workers at the web giant Google have launched a rival search engine.
Cuil (pronounced Cool), and old irish word for knowledge, claims to have a larger index than google with 121,617,892,992 pages indexed.
They also say that they differ from google and similar engines because instead of relying purely upon popularity metrics, they search for and rank content based on relevance, they then analyze the entire content on the site concepts and inter-relationships to generate its listings.
The results are then listed Magazine Style rather than in list format, which takes a little getting used to but seems to work well.
It might be interesting to see how they do, but I, no doubt like many others, am not sure how much of an impact they can have on google or any of the other search engines. They’ve certainly got a huge hill to climb before google starts to panic.
I have had a look for some of my main keyphrases and if they do become huge should be fairly well placed, unless they alter something that is.
The homepage is even more minimalist than google and the results are very slow to appear at the moment(new servers may be in need).
from the Cuil website
Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.
Summary of Cuil’s features:
- Biggest Internet search engine—Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages, 3x more than any other search engine
- Organized results—Cuil’s magazine-style layout separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category
- Different results—Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity
- Complete privacy protection—Cuil does not keep any personally identifiable information on users or their search histories
