Which search engine is the Cuil-est?
A new search engine called Cuil launched on 28 July 2008, is attempting to take on Google. Cuil is pronounced ‘cool’ and comes from an old Irish word meaning ‘knowledge’.
The staff are ex-Google employees and they say it?s more sophisticated and accurate than Google. Their search engine tries to analyse the content of each page and results are organised by ideas rather than rankings, and sorts them by category. The way the results appear is also rather more sophisticated than Google?s plain list of results.
Cuil also boasts complete user privacy, stating on their website that they do not keep logs of user activity and they don?t record your cookies on their server.
There have been a spate of recent new search engines available: Hakia, Kartoo, Ask, Vivisimo, who are all trying to claim a corner of the search engine market. There are even specialist ones, like Scirus, covers only scientific research information.
Microsoft is still sniffing at heels of the main Google rival, Yahoo, and possibly forging a merger, with the aim of getting those big bucks from the paid search market.
So which new search engine will become your favourite?
Comments
DrG (not verified) said on 31 July 2008 at 4:08pm:
Cuil certainly isn't really in the same league as Google yet. For them to say it is more sophisticated is like saying a car is more sophisticated than a bicycle. Which is true, until you run out of petrol.
I've had a few test searches on it, and it certainly does need some tweaking. Rome wasn't built in one day either was it?
Regis (not verified) said on 09 August 2008 at 9:24pm:
Vadlo is better than Scirus. Or for that matter, Google Scholar! I think you will like it, it's new.
Niall (not verified) said on 09 August 2008 at 5:27pm:
Lets face it if Microsoft with the multi million dollar backing they have managed only a 5% market share then its gonna be pretty tough for anyone.
Culi does try and do something different but it has a long way to go before it can even challage MSN, never mind Google. When you look at a lot of the results some of them have 10 results from one website! Still work to be done.
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