New search engine

A new search engine has been launched called Cuil ( pronounced ‘cool’) by people who previously worked for Google. http://www.cuil.com/
In the press release it says that it is the world’s biggest search engine, examining more pages than any other, and:

Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.

Apparently cuil ‘is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil’.

I have done a search for Conductive Education and found the layout of hits to be in two columns and quite different to other search engines. A few of the hits have the Foundation for Conductive Education logo attached despite having nothing to do with FCE. A temporary glitch, no doubt!

Any new service is worth investigating and taking the time to familiarise oneself should show whether it is a viable option to user-friendly Google for you or another complementary engine. I find using several different search services can produce different selections.

Let me know what you think.