Ex Googler Created New Search Engine Cuil
A former Google employee and her husband launched a new search engine Monday called Cuil (pronounced “cool”), targeting to contest with Google by indexing more Web pages than the search giant. The company claims that it has indexed 120 billion Web pages and can provide results organized by ideas with complete privacy for users.
The best part of Cuil is its its interface and design. Although, the searching is not as smart as Google, but it is very effective if you search for the most popular items on that particular topic.
When you get to Cuil, right below the search bar is the “Search 121,617,892,992 web pages,” statistic which is going to increase to 3 times more than any search engine down the road. Cuil’s search process allows you to display your search results in two or three columns—which can be a good thing. The new search engine will attempt to analyse the context of each page and the concepts behind each query, thereby grouping similar results together and sorting them by category.
“Rather than trying to mimic Google’s method of ranking the quantity and quality of links to Web sites, Cuil’s technology drills into the actual content of a page. And Cuil’s results will be presented in a more magazine-like format instead of just a vertical stack of Web links. Cuil’s results are displayed with more photos spread horizontally across the page and include sidebars that can be clicked on to learn more about topics related to the original search request,” says Ms Patterson, the founder of Cuil.
The search engine project is backed by $33 million venture capital. Even after investing hundreds of millions of dollars on search, both Microsoft and Yahoo Inc. have been losing ground to Google. Cuil is the latest challenger to Google.
Source: PC World
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