Is Cuil.com really Cool?

Launched on Monday July 28 2008 Cuil the next generation search engine claims to Index three times more pages than Google and ten times more than Microsoft. With a different look and feel compared to the traditional search engine instead of listing results vertically in a top 10 manner Cuil uses two or three columns. Cuil is able to display longer descriptions and images associated with the listings. The images displayed with the listings often does not appear on the site or is even sometimes irrelevant  to the key phrase. Cuil does not rely upon popularity metrics.

Cuil is an Old Irish word for Knowledge or Wisdom. Cuil also says it has come up with a search engine that indexes 120 billion web pages it ranks results by relevancy instead of popularity, organizes results by idea and protects the privacy of its users. With a ” Magazine layout” with tabs and images for subjects a start up in Menlo Park California which has 30 employees has already raised $33 million Some of the feedback from search gurus and general public have been the following: “Sometimes the images seem completely random” or ” Some say it gives in accurate search results”, kind of embarassing. In my opinion they should have had a beta version and got feedback from users before launching.