Cuil launched today and is already taking a pummelling in the blogosphere, so its black and blue colour scheme seems apt at the moment. It claims to index "120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine." I'm not sure Google would agree with that, but I personally think it's more important to boast about quality rather than quantity.
Cuil is the brainchild of former Googler Anna Patterson, her husband Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers: Russell Power and Louis Monier. It is backed by $33 million in venture capital, no small change.
I played around with it for a while this morning, but it took ages to return results, so I gave up. Seems like a lot of Tweeters did too. Ah well, it is Day One - maybe we're being a bit harsh in proclaiming it a Google Killer so soon. Time will tell.
But, it's a good idea to at least put your own brand at #1 in the search results:
~ John Carson, Senior Digital Media Specialist, GCI Canada