Does Index Size Matter?

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Cuil.com the search engine designed by ex Google employees launched earlier today. The new engine claims to index 120 billion webpages, supposedly more than the designers’ former employer. Although as far as we know Google doesn’t publicly state their index count anymore. Cuil also taking an interesting route away from it’s former employer and claims not to retain the search histories or surfing patterns of its users. Something becoming more common among search engines. Kudos for that.




Cuil’s Philopshy as taken from the website” Cuil’s goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet—not just part of it—and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results.”


After spending a little time using the site, we're pretty pleased with it. We are definitely liking the slightly more visual display of results and the tab feature. The question is can/will Cuil become the common place search engine that Google has? Only time will tell, one things for certain, the more search engines we tryout the more we realize that there is something addictively simple about Googles layout that just can't be touched. While we're a fan of visual layouts (ex. Cuil, Viewzi) the real test comes in the form of functionality. Would you head to Cuil while working on a research paper? Or perhaps looking for a funny clip to share with friends? These are things that each user will have to take into account. We actually wanted to do a side by side comparison on Google vs. Cuil results and apparently Cuil's site is having a bit of difficulty at the moment so perhaps that will wait for another time. Even the current giant has down time so we won't hold that against them and as far as the site goes, we like it. And we'll be sure to check in on Cuil from time to time.

Incidentally this site came to our attention via a Twitter from Kevin Rose 2 hours ago, owner of Digg.com and host of popular podcast show Diggnation. (Like you didn't know) Lastnite around 1-2am eastern pacific time. Kevin went live via Ustream and shaved his head for charity and challenged others from the tech, podcast world to do the same. video below.










Yeah...it was 2am, and we were entertained for 20mins so sue us.