Back in September 2007 I posted about a new search engine on the horizon called Cuill, the next “Google Killer”. Since then, not much has come out about the engine, except additional funding and concerns with their crawlers. Now they have launched their search application and shortened their name to Cuil.
Why so special?
The company’s main claim is that it can index web pages significantly faster and cheaper than Google can - Cuill has told potential investors that their indexing costs will be 1/10th of Google’s, based on new search architectures and relevance methods. In some ways Cuill is the polar opposite of Powerset, which has huge indexing costs because it does a deep contextual analysis on every sentence on every web page. Powerset’s indexing costs, therefore, should be much higher per web page than Google’s.
Powerset, you might have heard recently, was purchased by Microsoft.
If you haven’t checked it out, browse on over. They do return results in a columnized form, however, I would like to do more research around the ranking of the results and the ranking factors of the engine.
Here are a few screenshots:
Search
Results
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