Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Cuil - New word for search

Cuil - the latest search engine tipped to beat Google

This new Web search service is started by former Google engineers who have sharpened the searching tool by searching for and ranking pages based on their content and relevance. What they do is find a page with your search keywords, and stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency. Making helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want. Tom Costello is Cuil co-founder and chief executive.

I remembered when Google first came about and I was complaining about the other search engines like Yahoo which have flooded the website with ads and are slowing down.
List of search engines we used to have, that I still have in my old bookmarks; see if you can remember them, though I am not sure if all of them still exist:
1) Catcha.com
2) Altavista
3) Excite
4) Hotbot
5) PlanetSearch
6) Lycos
7) Webcrawler
8) Gnn.com
9) Project Cool
10) Goto.com

Anyway in case you are wondering what the hell is Cuil - It is an old Irish word for knowledge. Coincidentally, or not, Google launches their own Google Knol which is akin to Wikipedia. It was announced on December 13, 2007 and was opened in beta to the public recently on July 23, 2008. So be it Knol or Cuil, fire away to a speedier learning process.

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