Cuil, the start-up founded by Tom Costello and two former Google employees: Anna Patterson and Russell Power, unveiled a search engine that claims to have more than 120 billion pages in the index. According to Cuil, that’s “three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.”
CUIL - Search Engine
The most striking new idea is the way search results are formatted. Instead of the ten blue links displayed linearly, Cuil makes better use of the space by using columns. The search engine also shows thumbnails next to some of the results, but they don’t always represent images included in the adjacent web page. Another interesting idea is the explorative category section that shows related Wikipedia categories and topics. Cuil has an excellent auto-complete feature and it displays a list of related searches using an design pattern that suggests exploration.
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1 Natali // Jul 29, 2008 at 11:57 pm
The new visual search engine already exists, it is only for kids))
http://www.aga-kids.com/
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