Is Cuil Cool?

I was gonna blog about Cuil last week, but when it debuted last Monday, it didn't seem to work so good. It seems to be fixed now though. :)

Cuil is a new search engine created by some of the former higher ups at Google. Apparently frustrated by the Google UI and search methods for the back end, they left to create a new search engine.

What they have come up with doesn't seem to be a lot different. The search summaries are a lot more scrunched up. Looks pretty much the same. No ads yet. It will be interesting to see how much traction they get. Can anyone take on Google? We shall see.

The company name comes from the Irish name McCool or McCuil. Taken from the Irish folklore character Finn McCuil.