Will Cuil get Hot?

Launched in July of last year, Cuil (pronounced COOL) is a search engine that claims to be the world’s biggest. According to their website, Cuil are 3 times bigger than Google and 10 times bigger than Microsoft. Bold declarations, but then Cuil has been developed by a group of seriously experienced boffins from the search engine field—former Google and IBM staffers among them.

Cuil has pointedly been developed with a fresh approach to searching (new architecture and algorithms) to tackle the rapid, exponential growth of the Internet. Their goal is to place “nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user.”

Cuil ranks pages based on content and context. When a searched-for keyword is located on a webpage, Cuil examines the whole site, putting that keyword into context to gauge its relevance. Depending on the search query, this can lead to a more intuitive list of results, and Cuil’s magazine-style presentation of these is distinctly different from the traditional blue-lines approach of most other search engines.

Cuil is the new searcher on the block. They have a tiny share of the world’s searching at this point, but they have solid funding and a reasonable point-of-difference that could see them emerge as a major player. File under one to watch.

www.cuil.com

Category: Features
Filed: 2010-02-26 11:26:26 by Stephen

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