New search engine: Cuil
Posted by Jacque on July 28th, 2008
A new search engine named Cuil, an old Irish word for knowledge, was introduced today. Wikipedia says the word is pronounced like “cool.” There is already a brief entry about the search engine.
Cuil claims to search more pages on the Web than anyone else — three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft. 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,” states the engine’s “about” page.
Cuil’s goal, they say, is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet — not just part of it — and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results.
It has some interesting features such as drilldowns, roll-over definitions, tabs, and more. You can see an example of a search on “libraries” in the image below.
There are, of course, some early blog reactions. For example, Slashdot, Quick Online Tips, and TechCrunch.
