Cuil (pronounced as cool) is another search engine in the long series, trying to beat Google, the search giant.

The Cuil people on their about us page write: “Welcome to Cuil—the world’s biggest search engine. The Internet has grown. We think it’s time search did too“.

Surprisingly, I did not discover Cuil from the Internet, I knew about existence from an Indian newspaper today morning.

Cuil’s management includes the following people:

1. Tom Costello, CEO and Founder: the person who founded Xift, a revolutionary search engine in the year 1999

2. Anna Patterson, President and Founder: she was the architect of Google’s large search index, TeraGoogle, that launched in early 2006.

3. Russell Power, VP of Engineering and Founder: He was technical lead for the serving part of TeraGoogle.

4. Louis Monier, VP of Products: He was also working with Google where he led the design of a faceted search engine.

5. Vince Sollitto, VP of Communications: He was a spokesman for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, serving as chief deputy press secretary.

6. Pete Szymanski, General Counsel: He was an attorney for seven years in the Silicon Valley office of Cooley Godward Kronish where he specialized in assisting emerging growth companies.

7. Bruce Baumgart, Head of Operations: He was formerly at the Internet Archive and he helped design, build and run petabyte clusters in California, Amsterdam and Egypt.

So, Cuil has three people who were an integral part of the modern God ‘Google’. Being with a big one, they must have acquired the skills to run a search engine and we could definitely expect a good service from Cuil.

The home page of the Cuil seems to be good and cool as its name suggests But when I searched a term in the search engine it shows the results in tabular form - which of course is a difficult format to perceive as I have been Googling for more than 8 years now!

But its always good to give it a TRY.

When I Cuiled a term “Mobile Phones”, Cuil gave me 11 results on the first page and a cool thing is it allows users to explore the term by categries. Unfortunately my notebooks Print Screen button is not working so I will not be able to pus a screnshot here, but trust me its really cool. You can click on this link to experience it yourself: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=Mobile%20Phones&sl=long.

How is it?

At the end I would like you all to visit Cuil and have a change.

Wish you happy Cuiling!