Yesterday, I was browsing through my BBC feeds as usual when I read this article about Cuil, a new search engine that aims to rival Google. As it happens, the founders of Cuil (pronounced “cool”) are former Google staffers, so I found it rather interesting.

First thing I want to know is how Cuil’s website looks. It was simpler than Google’s, the background is all black and the logo is in silver and blue. After that I tried doing a search on Cuil about Google (seems fitting to me). Below are a screenshot of the search results page.

The layout is different than Google’s search results, as you can see for yourself. The only thing you can set in the preferences is whether Safe Search and Typing Suggestions are turned on or not. There are no visible ads, not yet perhaps. I kind of like the layout though.

They claimed that they use more than 120 billion web pages to build its index of information. After searching for Google, I tried looking for several other things. I remember it turned up nothing for a search term I used, but after several minutes waiting and doing the same search again out of curiosity, suddenly the results appeared.

Perhaps it was because they are still new and still collecting people’s search terms / keywords. Overall I have to admit I found Cuil’s way of displaying the search results is likable, and I quite like how it looks. Right now I am just trying to be fair and give Cuil a chance by doing my searching both on Cuil and Google and see how things turned out.

For those of you who missed the news, here is the article about Cuil on BBC News. See you later then!

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