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Cuil Raises the Search Engine Bar
 Creating the perfect search engine experience is no longer simply a numbers game, and three former engineers of Google have vowed to change this philosophy with the launch of their new search engine. Cuil (pronounced 'cool') has invented itself as a smarter, more user-friendly way of searching the web, by indexing 8 times more pages than Google and using more advanced methods of information analysis, helping you find what exactly what you're looking for.
Using their proprietary web spidering technology ('Twiceler'), Cuil has successfully indexed over 120 billion pages using just a fraction of the resources available to search engine giant Google. While the specific details regarding this technology are not being released (for obvious reasons), Cuil is able to more efficiently crawl sites, establishing relationships between pages, recognizing keyword contexts, and organizing information based on relevancy instead of popularity.
 What makes Cuil truly powerful is its unique approach to keyword and information relevancy, where you're guided to the information you're looking for by the keyword relationships that the Cuil system has gathered. Other search engines have started to explore these features, but Cuil has certainly taken the lead here, offering keyword suggestions and drilldowns, rollover definitions, and tabs for other search suggestions.
If you're a privacy advocate, you're probably well aware of the concerns regarding information privacy and the collection of data by Google for their ad-targeting technologies. Cuil has taken the opposite approach and has vowed to never store information related to keywords, IP address, cookies, or any other identifiers, which is certainly a breath of fresh air in an Internet economy where information is mined and leveraged for any amount of competitive advantage in the market.
Cuil is definitely providing a fresh approach to the concept of a search engine, and I'm really interested to see what the future holds for this startup. Take a few moments to read more about Cuil and its benefits; you might be pleasantly surprised with how easy it can be to find exactly what you're looking for online.
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