Search Engines

In case you haven't heard this week a new search engine named Cuil (pronounced "cool") launched to much fanfare. In fact the amount of free publicity that they received as a suspected "Google killer" was unbelievable.

Just yesterday Google opened up a new services called Knol. The premise is quite simple, each knol on the site is a single, authoritative article on a specific topic. For Google, the idea is to build an information resource of a similar scale to that of Wikipedia. Whether or not Knol will be successful is yet to be seen, but if it is you can't afford to miss out.