Google’s ex employees have just released a new search engine, called Cuil. Until now the Menlo Park search engine indexed more than 121 billion pages and it continues growing. The founders stated it has the biggest index amogn all search engines, but I will have to disagree, considering Google announced it has an index of 1 trillion pages, on yesterday.
Indeed, it made a lot of buzz once with it’s launch, but that’s what happened with many new search engines, that just died after that or were forgotten. So we aren’t expecting too much about this one either. Just that it keeps it simple, like Google and it has a nice layout.
Cuil was founded by Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, ex Google eployees, and Russel Power. The company was subject of intense speculations, being founded by Google’s employees.
It doesn’t work like Google or other regular search engines, being in part a semantic one. It tries to understand how words are related and what do they mean.
If Cuil would prove to be extremely relevant, better than Google, then it had slight chances to survive.
Update: It seems like users didn’t understand the name and there are a lot of searches after Ciul, Kuil, Kool or Cool.
Update2: Cuil.com is already down, due to the high amount of traffic.
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