Cuil, a New Search Engine from ex-Google Programmers

Four former Google employees have launched a new search engine. The new search engine has a bigger index then Google and Microsoft. The company behind the search engine is founded by Tom Costello (creator of a prototype of Web Fountain for IBM), Anna Peterson (creator of Google's Teragoogle-index), Russel Power (one of the people that worked on Google spam filters and rankings) and Louis Monier (co-developer of Altavista, Babelfish and the new eBay search engine).

The search engine has indeed 120 trillion pages and is said to be three times as big as Google's. The search engine ranks by content rather then popularity like Google does.

The engine uses categories and tabs to maintain a good overview for its users. Cuil promisses to mine less data of its visitors and to keep search queries anonymous. The company wants to generate income using advertisements and plans to support other languages then English later this year.