Cuil, the latest search engine to hit the market, is made up of former Google employees and it supposedly is the largest search engine with an index of 120 billion web pages. 120 billion web pages would arguably make them the most comprehensive search engine on the planet. Google hasn’t disclosed the size of their index, but they claim to index about 1 trillion web pages. However, Cuil claims that they index three times as many web pages as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.
Cuil’s corporate philosophy is that the Internet has grown exponentially in the last 15 years and that search needs to grow exponentially as well to keep pace. Rather than rely on superficial web metrics, Cuil will search for and rank pages based on their content and relevance. While on a search results page, Cuil allows users to stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency. Cuil will also offer users helpful choices and suggestions until they find the page they want.
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Read a less than stellar review about Cuil on RWW.
