I stumbled upon http://www.cuil.com while browsing for some high-tech stuff. Believe me, it made me forget what I was looking for. An excellent user interface combined with very intelligent search semantics, very impressive indeed. I was amazed at the relevance of the results. Although the number of results shown at once is lesser than the contemporary search engines, it makes up for it by ensuring two things. First, the search results are extremely relevant: Second, the search results carry tabs for each of the related possible suggestions, the user may effortlessly click any of the tabs to get results for that tab. Cuil is a brain child of Anna Patterson and Tom Costello. It has been designed to be the largest search engine on the web.
The two features, namely faceted drilldown and tabbed search for related terms are shown in the figures below. Read the rest of this entry »
