There’s yet another new search engine on the block, Cuil, made its public launch today and already call itself the “biggest search engine on the web”. The new engine named “Cuil” (pronounced “Cool”) after the gaelic word for “wisdom”, founded by husband-and-wife team and run by a team of former Google employees. The people at Cuil claim the new search engine uses fewer servers than other search engine big boys, yet indexes much larger chunk from the web.

I played around with the engine quite a bit, it might be good in the future, but right now, it’s just lack of something. I did a couple of test searches and the results Cuil returned were often disappointing. Personally, I think Google is much better. Cuil is good for obsure searches, and not so good when you are searching generic stuff. But its nice to see people rethinking the way search results can be displayed. Instead of a list, it displayed results in three columns (you can switch to two column as well).

Though Cuil offers a unique perpective on search, it looks to be a long while before it can challenge the top players. Cuil has a long way to go…

Will keep trying it out for the next few days.

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