Have you checked out the new search engine Cuil yet? Chances are if you tried just after their launch yesterday that you didn't see that much: their servers were jammed. Billing itself as "the world's biggest search engine", cuil has a different search basis than Google which analyzes web users and the sites they visit. The more popular the site, the more often Google and other search engines will list that site as relevent- regardless of whether the content you are looking for is really there. Anna Patterson, the founder and one of 4 developers of cuil (an old Irish word for knowledge) reasons that metrics might not be the best way to database information. Her goal is to create the new gold standard for information architecture and organization by indexing the entire internet, not just the popular portions of it and analyzing that data quickly to get the relevant results. I like the interface. Its simple, bright and is laid out like a magazine.
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