Another Cuil Search Engine?
Mon, July 28, 2008
Cuil, pronounced ‘Cool’ apparently, is an attempt by ex-Google employees to overtake their former paymasters as the best search engine on the Web. They claim that their algorithms do a better job of understanding the content on the page, rather than basing its value on the number and quality of its links.
This type of ’semantic search’ isn’t a particularly new thing, many have tried and failed, but I do think that the future of the Web searching is going to be built around understanding the meaning of the information.
Its search results page is, err different. OK it’s not Google, so maybe that’s putting me off… But I get the feeling that they are deliberately trying to do everything different to Google; from the layout of search results, to the fact that they claim to not store individual search history - even the colour scheme is pretty much the opposite.
I’m not sure on this one yet. Competition is obviously a good thing but will they have the balls to muscle in on Google’s market share? It’s proven quite difficult so far…
I wonder what Google think? What do you think?
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