A new search engine Cuil (pronounced Cool) was unveiled today to rival the search engine giant Google. It is founded by former Google employees. Anna Patterson, who co-founded the company, wants to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the internet. Her last internet search engine was so impressive that Google bought it in 2004 to upgrade it own system.

It claims it has indexed more than 120 billions pages to date. The main page greets you with a simple search box ala Google, in dark color.

The search result is delivered in a magazine-type layout. You can select a 2-column or a 3-column format of content delivery. Being so used to Google and other search engines out there, it does take a little while to get used to.

A quick search for joefiro yields 803 results but my blog doesn’t show up on the first page. The first few pages are dominated by my social bookmarking site. The same with Joey Rosario, it yields ton of results but my blog is nowhere to be found until later on. On Google, Yahoo, and MSN, search on both joefiro and Joey Rosario put my blog at NUMBER #1.

And whoops, I get this page while doing the search on Cuil.

I know today is the official FIRST day so traffic might be high. However, if they want to make a noise in the search market, they better fix their scalability issue or they will be a one-day wonder never to be heard of from again.

The site has been extremely slow today.

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