“Search 121,617,892,992 web pages” – That’s the one liner that caught my eyes when I found out about Cuil. Cuil is a brand new search engine developed by an ex Googlers, Anna Patterson.
Anna is not on her own though, along with her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineer, Russell Power and Louis Monier, they created Cuil which is trying to upstage Google. Cuil adopts a new way to search, produce a better result, and along the way, take a shot at the Gigantic Search Engine ever known, Google.
Cuil claims to produce better, far more accurate result than Google, since it uses a different page ranking system than what Google has. It is said that Cuil digs even deeper into websites, making sure it’s the most relevant to your search term, before serving it to you fresh from the web. And not only that, Cuil also provides pictures whenever possible, giving you a far better picture of what that particular websites is about.
But it is enough?
I tried Cuil to search a variety of topics from gaming, politics, entertainment, and day to day general web search. The results are pretty impressive, but not impressive enough to make me move away from Google. A few terms I searched doesn’t even yield any result at all (and I was looking for my favorite artist… bummer). Nevertheless, Cuil gives quite a performance for its first review. I’m looking forward for an interesting development in the near future.
Give Cuil a go, look for terms you are familiar with, and see how well Cuil performs. Which one would you go for? Google? or Cuil? Are you going to stick to “Google it up” or are you shifting to “Cuil it up”? Let us know in comments.