Anna Patterson, the architect of Google’s TeraGoogle index of web pages, and several other search engine gurus, have founded a new search engine to compete with Google, called Cuil (pronounced "Cool").

Cuil uses a new technology in search which enables them to index much more of the Internet's Web pages, and provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page and the concepts behind each query. It then organizes similar search results into groups and sorts them by category.

So far, Cuil has indexed over 121 billion Web pages, according to the numbers listed under the search box on the Cuil home page.

I like the clean look of Cuil, it isn't loaded with ads like other search engines, at least not yet anyway. However, Cuil places what appears to be a completely useless and random image next to every search result - such as the Star Trek image I found next to an article I wrote about Mail app's Stationery feature. Since the images have nothing to do with anything, I would just assume they get rid of them completely. That being said, the search results were on par with what you might find at Google, so Cuil is certainly worth considering.