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Thursday, July 31, 2008

New Search Engine Cuil launched

Cuil (pronounced [kuːl], "cool") is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. It went live on July 28, 2008.

Unlike other search engines Cuil's privacy policy states that it does not store records of users’ search activity or IP addresses.

Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google: Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier. The CEO and co-founder, Tom Costello, has worked for IBM and others. The company raised $33 million from venture capital firms.

I tried searching few pages and liked few things

  • The concept of each entry with an image (seems to be better than dry Google results)
  • Auto complete while typing the search
  • Explore by category option
And the stuff that i did not like:
  • I am not happy with search results - while scrolling through results on cuil found same results repeating on each page.
  • No "cached" link?
  • No way of browsing similar pages
  • There is no advanced search / no help for advanced search - like if i want to search for PDF files only how to?

Try it: www.cuil.com

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