google alternative cuil launched

A bunch of ex-Google employees just launched cuil which should be an alternative to the famous Google search engine with a special attention towards privacy concerns.

Cuils goal is the same as the one of its big brother, indexing the whole internet and analyse its content to get only relevant information.
Referring to the cuil privacy policy they don't keep any logs and they don't record cookie information on their servers.
Interesting about this policy is that they also plan to announce changes to this policy on their home page (front page?) 30 days before the change becomes effective.
But privacy doesn't seem to be the only thing that makes cuil an interesting candidate for a useful search engine, the number of indexed pages also is.

Compared to the number Google indexed they state that they already indexed 120 billion pages which is 3 times as much as the indexed pages by Google (Google indexed 1 trillion unique URLs but not web pages).
So far the search is optimized for the English language, other languages should follow soon and like Google they plan to finance this project by advertisement.

Cuil also provides some other features and a Safe Search option which "will filter pornography or other objectionable material from your search results. However, Cuil can’t guarantee that all objectionable material will be filtered out."
Even the black start page is a win, remember of past measures to save energy ;-P

Looking at the latest privacy issue with Google involvement I think it may be worth to see how cuil works out.
The search results could be better so far but that may improve in the future.

it seems the cuil server is a bit overloaded at the moment, you might want to check it later
[via F!XMBR && silicon]