Google rival 'will approach search in a different way'
Monday, 28, Jul 2008 03:09
Cuil, a new search engine launched by former Google workers as a rival to the search engine giant, is set to use a new system to index its search results.
Instead of displaying results as a list, Cuil - pronounced 'cool' - will show them in a magazine format.
Developers of the new technology - former Google programmers Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier, IBM worker Tom Patterson, and other search experts - have promised that instead of looking at the number and quality of links to a website or focussing on keywords, Cuil will understand the context of a site.
The new search engine will also understand more about the terms people use to search with, they have remarked.
However, according to testers from the Washington Post, results on Cuil are "not nearly as relevant" as those received from Google and while a search for Dog receives 280 million Cuil results, it gets 498 million on Google.
Nevertheless, the Washington Post reports, Cuil returns "extremely relevant" results through providing a related categories system.
The newspaper also defends the new technology by saying that at the point of testing, it was only an hour old.
Social networking search engine Scour has also recently been released and attempts to rival Google by producing more relevant results by asking users to rate websites.
