Monday, July 28, 2008

Search Engines!!

Well...the first thing that comes to mind is Google! ...couldn't agree more...
however, there are many other search engines offered by various companies..and the latest to join the bandwagon is Cuil ....now this caught few eyes as it was started by former google employee.. :) This search engine ranks results based on content present in the sites rather than using websites popularity(google's algo)...
About Cuil...well it looks pretty decent and the results displayed are quite close to ur query...it also displays an image with each result tryin to match the query ...and phrase complete suggestions too(obvious to expect this)....besides displaying other categories which might interest users...
but one wonders if one really want to c popular pages(which are also close to ur query) or the ones which are not so popular but matches ur query.:P
Funny thing i found out was : if u type "cuil" as search query, this search engine's website is not listed in first page of results ...

ixquick - this one is good...well its a metasearch engine but does a good job in grabbing results by using other SE's .. :) ... check it out...i occasionally use this and found it good..