A new search engine called Cuil launched on the market, and this time, it might make a difference. The guys behind Cuil, which is pronounced like 'cool,' are former Google employees.

One of them, Anna Patterson is one of the persons that worked directly at developing the algorithms that Google uses to provide its relevant results.

Cuil claims that it has a Web index three times the size of Google, but it is rather hard to say whether they are right or not, since Google hasn't made public its Web index size for some time now. Even though this means that using Cuil will allow you to see results from more web pages than any other search engine will, it could also mean that there will be more junk information as well.

What Cuil has that really makes it special and possibly better than Google, is the way it indexes search results. Unlike Google, that looks at the number of links that point to a page in order to determine how relevant it is, Cuil tries to understand what the information on that page is all about, as well as the context in which it is presented.

According to its founders, Cuil also understands what people want to search for based on the keywords they use. This way Cuil supposedly doesn't search just for that keywords, but also for the meaning of the text that was entered.

While some experts think that Cuil is the most revolutionary product of its sort in quite some time, few people think that it could really compete with Google as far as market share is concerned.

The two main obstacles that stand in Cuil's way to stardom, are its competition's immense financial power, as well as people's habit of conducting searches with the same search engine that they've used for years.