Is cuil a Google-buster? No.

There's a new kid on the search block, and it's pretty cool, er, I mean "cuil".

I usually don't pay any attention to new search engines, because they all seem to disappear after a while, or are just forgotten. But cuil is a little different. See, it was started by the husband and wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, then later Russell Power joined in on the fun. This is interesting because Patterson and Power are both former Google search engineers, and Costello is the man behind Xift. So with these kind of credentials, it's clear these people know what they're doing. But what about Google?

I tried cuil, but wasn't very impressed. A search for twoguystech turned up three pages of results, but all of them were for mentions on other web sites. None linked directly to the Two Guys Tech web site. Another search for one of my personal web sites turned up plenty of hits, but the images shown with the results were not my own. Cuil seems to just stick related images in to the search results to spruce up the looks of the returned results, even if those images are to be found nowhere on the site you're looking for. No images were shown for the Two Guys Tech results.

Even though cuil claims to have indexed more sites than Google (121,617,892,992), the search results just aren't very good.

I'll be sticking with Google, thank you very much. Try it out yourself and let us know what you think in the comments.

And by the way, please don't mistype the url and transpose the 'i' and 'l'. You'll wind up at a very NSFW site if you do.