Former employees of Google have decided to jump in the search engine market with their fresh project named Cuil, after the Irish word for knowledge. One not-so-small thing that set them apart is the fact that their search index is 3 times that of Google and 10 bigger than MSN‘s, but that’s not all: they rely on new set of algorithms that will contextualize your search. Will this be a Google killer? Many disagree.

I jumped on the Google wagon long time ago. It was fast, it delivered precise results, and it grew. Yet, few things started to bug me recently: I felt violated as my search history was saved and used for filtering my search results, and this latest Viacom victory was a drop too much. Cuil took a step in the right direction: they decided not to save any search history, cookies or otherwise, clearing themselves from any future problems regarding user privacy. It’s like they’re reaching for the user trust of days gone by.

I am, for one, interested in the story development. Cuil sure suffers from birth pains, but that is to be expected. It’s still not very precise and spews out results that have meaning only for basic terms. Any specific searches will give you far less then hoped for.

Nothing more to do now than to give it a chance and see if it improves.