The New Cool, Kewl or "Cuil"?

"Welcome to Cuil—the world’s biggest search engine." A bold statement from the new kid on the search block which launched last night. Cuil claim's it has indexed over 120 billion pages so far!

http://www.cuil.com - check it out!

Cuil (pronounced "cool") promises organized results, different results from other search engines, and complete privacy protection. Cuil says that unlike Google, which reportedly ignores seldom visited or obscure websites in its index, Cuil doesn't discriminate and has packed 120 billion Internet pages in its index.

Cuil is the product of ex-google engineers; Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier. Patterson and Power worked on Google's "TeraGoogle" search index and Monier specialized in search engine design.

At first blush, it definitely has some handy features (such as the tabs of related subjects) but there are still bugs to work out. I took a look at the webmater info and it looks like you can submit your site for indexing via email. Also a small tweak to your robot file and you can welcome the Cuil robot called "Twiceler" to your site.

Competition is good for the industry as far as I am concerned but the task to topple Google is an ominous one. Just ask Steve Ballmer the Cult Leader of Microsoft.

Stay tuned for more in Cuil story.