Minimalist (and Emo) Cuil

Lose Google

Just unveiled today is Cuil (predictably pronounced "cool"). It's billed as the world's biggest search engine with three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft. Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google. Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge (and hazel). Unlike Google, Cuil's privacy policy claims that it does not store records of users' search activity or IP addresses. Google's anti-privacy practices is why I switched to Ixquick Metasearch two years ago. Ixquick is the world's most powerful metasearch engine which searches many popular search engines (anonymously) at the same time and then returns the top ten results from each. Ixquick was the first search engine to delete private details of its users within 48 hours of a search. Ixquick also does not share its users' personal information with other search engines or with the provider of its sponsored results. In fact earlier this month Ixquick was awarded the first European Union-sponsored Privacy Seal (EuroPriSe) for its privacy practices.

Cuil

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