Cuil Search Engine

Former 'Googleers' have released a search engine that they think will beat that of their former employers. Cuil (pronounced 'cool') is supposed to index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the Web than Google - Cuil currently indexes over 120 billion pages, three times more than Google.

I gave it a quick whirl and the first search threw an error but the second one worked. The results by default come back in three columns but you can change to two columns. The layout is awful and confusing. They have included too much information with each result and the multi-column layout is difficult to read.

The results also include images which tend to be unrelated to the website. Like many other startup search engines, Cuil are going got have a hard time trying to convince Googlers to switch to another search engine. [via]