Cuil - the future of search...again

With search eninges being the gateway to knowledge and power on the Internet and with the massive amounts of money that can be generated through controlling this, it is not surprising that there are young pretenders jockeying for positioning.

Search engines live or die by the information they can provide. If you search for something and don't get what you want you will go somewhere else. If you search and find spam the search eninge will get a bad name and will lose market share, money and the eyes & ears of a legion of fans.

Cuil is one of these young pretenders. It claims the largest index (120) billion pages and it is developed by former Google search engine developers. The budget for the search engine was arounnd $30m which pales next to Google's billions but small & nimble is often an advantage in the Web 2.0 world.


Verdict:

Results are laid out pleasingly in columns with pictures to give an added sense of what is happening.
Form a small sample, results seem less spammy.