who is the best? Google or Cuil?

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Well, its a bit hard to answer this question. In fact, the comparison itself may seem a little bit awkward if you know that one of the cofounders of cuil was also once popular as the google search engine architect? Yes, that's true. Cuil was found by the most respected husband-wife duo of the Stanford University professor Tom Costello and the former google search  engine architect Anna Patterson.

 Launched on July 28, cuil is now coined as the latest, largest and swiftest search engine the world has ever witnessed. It was described by software developers world-wide as the " super stealth search project". Cuil is built with a database of over billion pages, that is , about thrice the volume of google index. While I made some searches in the site, I found that there were some features worth notice in the site which could outdo google search engine.

 While google depends on autocomplete of the search words by looking at the searches made earlier, cuil finds out the possible words that the user may be looking for. The figure 1 shows the pull down menu that appeared while I tried a search on robot. The figure 2 shows the search results. As you see, the way the results are put onto the web seems to be far better enhanced, with appropriate tab for each category of search results. Also, there is a separate column " Explore by category" which shows similar search results that the current user may be interested in. 

But the drawback of Cuil is that it is nothing more than a search engine. Several other services offered by google such as the gmail, google earth, blog search, news, etc tend to make users stick onto google search while not trying out Cuil. But it is not the right time to judge Cuil. There may be add ons later. Even google took almost a decade to shape into as you see it today. Let's wait and watch!