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New search engine takes aim at Google

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| There's a big new search engine launching Monday: Cuil. Developed and run by
| the husband-and-wife team of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former
| Google search architect Anna Patterson, it's pitched as bigger, faster, and
| better than Google's flagship search engine in pretty much every way. See
| video interview with Tom Costello, below.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10000379-2.html

Our Philosophy

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| The Internet is getting bigger and more disorganized every day. Cuil’s goal
| is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet
| —not just part of it—and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get
| relevant results.
|
| [...]
|
| Cuil analyzes the Web, not its users
|
| Privacy is a hot topic these days, and we want you to feel totally
| comfortable using our service. Because Cuil analyzes Web pages and not
| click-throughs, we don’t need to know your search history and habits. So our
| privacy policy is very simple: when you search with Cuil, we do not collect
| any personally identifiable information, period. We have no idea who sends
| queries: not by name, not by IP address, and not by cookie. Your search
| history is your business, not ours. We don’t need to keep logs of our users’
| search activity, so we don’t. For further details, read our Privacy Policy.
| Don’t worry, it’s short and to the point. No legal mumbo-jumbo.
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http://www.cuil.com/info/our_philosophy/

Wikia should be better. It's actually transparent.


Recent:

Quaero gets off the ground to challenge Google

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| Almost three years after then-President Jacques Chirac of France introduced
| Quaero to the world as the next Google-killer, the Internet search project
| has finally gotten its first funding. Â*
|
| [...]
|
| "It's extremely important for the future for Europe to be present in this
| field," he said. "Since most of the large players are American, it makes Â*
| sense. Either you're Google, Microsoft or Yahoo and you can do it in-house,
| or you're not, and so you have to collaborate with people." Â*
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/...y/quaero24.php
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