Cuil (pronounced [kuːl], “cool”), from the Gaelic for knowledge and hazel, is a search engine which first went online July 28, 2008. Cuil’s developers aimed to provide a more comprehensive search engine with more relevant results compared to prominent search engines. Uniquely, it organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries and pictures for each result. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google.
Unlike Google, Cuil’s privacy policy claims that it does not store records of users’ search activity or IP addresses.
Cuil’s founders, Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier are former Google employees, while Tom Patterson has worked for IBM and others.
its total waste of internet, how can ppl dream of competing with goog, with this piece of crap, the way they display results its annoying, even though the start page is simple
and 70% of the times it displays, nothing found. stupid
its quite good. Brought up some interesting results for someone I know. Completely different take on the way we search, and present results. It's by no means perfect but useful in certain situations.
I don't think it can replace Google, though maybe that wasn't the intention in the first place. The biggest problem I had with it is whenver I want some general information , like lets say a movie or book or sports personality, I always look at the wiki entry first. And cuil doesn't display the wiki entry atleast not on the first page.