New Cuil search engine by former Google employee

An Ex Google employee along with her husband has launched a new search engine today called Cuil, which is pronounced cool. The couple aim to topple Google, they hope to do this by indexing more web pages than Google.

Anna Patterson was Google’s former leader of the search index, her husband Tom Costello, used to research and develop search engines at Stanford University and IBM. The third co-founder of Cuil is Russell Power; he also worked at Google as part of the search indexing team, as well as spam detection and Web rankings. Power is vice president of engineering for the new search engine.

Cuil have said that they have indexed 120 billion Web pages; they have also organized their results by ideas with complete privacy for users.

Cuil say that they aim to be bigger than Google, well they have a long way to go as Google have just announced that they have discovered 1 trillion unique web pages however; it is not certain how many of those have been indexed by Google.

So Cuil said they will be bigger than Google, does not mean to say they will be better. Yahoo is bigger than Google, but we know that Google is better.

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