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New Search Engines

Choosing a search engine is a very important choice. Many Internet users use search engines on a daily basis. While most Internet users are probably using Google as their default search engine, it does not mean that there is no competition. I am not even talking about Yahoo or Microsoft’s search engines, but about relatively new ones that might become popular in the upcoming years. One of them is Cuil (pronounced Cool) and so far it looks very promising. Naturally, being cool is not its only attribute, and Cuil boasts over 120 billion indexed webpages. Some even claim that this is more than Google has indexed, however, it is hard to say whether it is true or not. In any case, the more competition there is, the better it is for users, as more competition usually means higher quality. This is especially true when it comes to the technology market, as often we do not see a lot of competition. Why is that, one might ask? I believe that is because the resources required to compete with other companies in technology market are huge. It is relatively easy to open a grocery store; however, creating a search engine from scratch which is suppose to compete with giants like Google is not easy. I hope this will change when technology will become even more widespread. Personally, I would like to see at least a few high quality search engines being created within the next few years.