Search Engines News & Articles

You’d think that after Google, nobody would even dare to venture into the search engine market. That apparently doesn’t include some former Googlers who launched Cuil - the newest search engine that describes its mission as “to index the whole Internet” and “analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results.”

Cuil (pronounced “cool”) claims to have a “fundamentally different approach” to search engines due to its new architecture and algorithms. Sounds good in theory, but how does it actually do in reality?

Russian search engine Quintura has thrown its hat into the website search ring with a snazzy new search tool. Currently in private Beta, Quintura Site Search delivers the same search navigation principle to website search that Quintura.com brings to Web searches;searching content through a dynamic tag cloud that brings you deeper into the query with every click. The technology is built on semantic principles which focus on context and aim to deliver fewer false positives than Google’s ‘most-linked’ algorithm.

Socialtext, which recently launched offline wiki Socialtext Unplugged at Le Web 3 in Paris, upgraded its search engine over New Years. This upgrade improves upon its already rather luxe professional-quality search function.