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A Look at the latest Web Search Engines : 2008

With Google, Yahoo and MSN Live, 3 of the biggest search engines around, What makes these newly released web search engines different?   Search Engine Overview Powerset's goal is to change the way people interact with technology by enabling computers to understand our language. While this is a difficult challenge, we believe that now is the right time to begin the journey. Powerset is first applying its natural language processing to search, aiming to improve the way we find informat...

Cuil

Cuil is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. It went live on July 28, 2008. Cuil's privacy policy, unlike that of other search engines, says it does not store users’ search activity or IP addresses Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google: Anna Patterson, Russell Power...

List of general Search Engines

Alexa Internet - Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website that provides information on web traffic to other websites. Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) - Ask.com is a search engine started in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. Baidu (Chinese) - Baidu is the leading Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including an o...