Cuil - New on the block

Last night the newest search engine Cuil was launched.They say

Welcome to Cuil—the world’s biggest search engine. The Internet has grown. We think it’s time search did too.

Their claim is they search three times the number of pages as Google.As some blogs have foretold, it seems Google's announcement about the size of its search index was aimed to take some credit away from one of Cuil's main features: the size of its index with 120 billion pages. As Cuil's team features quite a number of Google alumni, comparisons with Google's search are inevitable. In comparison however, Cuil performs nowhere near as well as Google.

User Interface

With simplicity as core design element,the search form mimics Google Suggest.

Cuil takes a very different approach to displaying its results. Instead of a list, it displays results in three columns. The top right spot is reserved for related searches, which usually displays either five or ten main suggestions and then, on mouse-over, slides open and reveals a more detailed selection.


Founded by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, a search-engine researcher from Stanford University and a Google technical lead, respectively, Cuil aims to rank the relevance of search results by content analysis rather than by popularity. It's an obvious swipe at Google, which treats links as popular votes in weighing relevance of a web page.

Cuil's privacy policy actually promises privacy: "When you search with Cuil, we do not collect any personally identifiable information, period. We have no idea who sends queries: not by name, not by IP address, and not by cookies. Your search history is your business, not ours."

Though Cuil may aspire to challenge Google, it has some basic service and accuracy issues to deal with first.Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time on Monday.

For more check out, About Cuil