Just 'cuil' it...
Have you 'google' it? Jusk ask Mr. 'Google'. Google this, Google that... for the last 5 years or so, Google has been the King of search engine, up to the point where the term 'google' is synonym to the term 'search'. This morning, a band of Google alumni, launched a new search engine called 'cuil', read, 'cool'.
It boasted more than 12 billion web page indexes. One thing that is very prominent, instead of the traditional line by line result, cuil formats its search result in newspaper-like column style. I'm not sure whether it will be a selling point or not, at the end of the day, when people use search engine, I believe the result that matters most. A simple search on my fullname returns seven valid references with google, but none with cuil.
I think it will be a while until people will ask Mr. Cuil instead of Mr. Google.
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Posted by jonsan21 at 05:03 PM on July 28, 2008 in Technology. |