Cuil is a brand new search engine that is aiming to compete with the giant of all search engines, Google. Cuil (which is pronounced "cool") was invented by Anna Patterson who left Google in 2006.
Supposedly, Cuil's index is much larger than Google's and that it scans at least 120 billion web pages. Cuil's search results are based on completely different methods than Google's and delve deeper into the content of web pages.
Search results presented on Cuil look very different that they do on Google. They are presented to the searcher in a more "magazine" style format along with lots of pictures. I tried it out using the search term "Flugpo", and it came up with 9,400 results.
This is what really caught my interest. I read that "Cuil is hoping to attract traffic by promising not to retain information about its users' search histories or surfing patterns — something that Google does, much to the consternation of privacy watchdogs". Considering how much Flugpo values privacy, I can respect that!
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