A couple of weeks ago, I asked some friends to check out the new search engine, Cuil, to see if this might be a viable alternative to Google.

It has potential, after all, as it has been developed by some former Google employees.

Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

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. (more…)