If you haven’t seen the 5 free videos where James Jones shows how to use his very nifty software, please do check it out. There are quite a few good ideas there for the taking, at no cost.

With the added functionality in the new version, this niche finding tool is better than ever. And that’s saying something.

Please do watch the videos — they are HERE.

It’s Cuil.

Pronounced COOL.

You’ve never heard of it?

Neither had I.

But if you’re interested in content rather than popularity, may I suggest you check it out: www.cuil.com

Attention getting claim:
They’ve indexed three times more pages than any other search engine.

Here’s how they describe themselves…

“Cuil searches the Web for pages with your keywords and then we analyze the rest of the text on those pages. This tells us that the same word has several different meanings in different contexts. Are you looking for jaguar the cat, the car or the operating system?

We sort out all those different contexts so that you don?t have to waste time rephrasing your query when you get the wrong result.

Different ideas are separated into tabs; we add images and roll-over definitions for each page and then make suggestions as to how you might refine your search. We use columns so you can see more results on one page.

We think that if you are interested in content rather than popularity, you?ll find our approach more useful.” [source]

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Cuil is the project of an impressive group of mostly-ex-Google brainiacs. The Management page says who they are and what expertise they bring to the Cuil project.

TWO MORE THINGS TO LIKE ABOUT CUIL

1. They dont track their users. Only data. Not IPs. Not cookies. Only data. [details]

2. You can view the site in 2 or 3 columns – your choice.

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Webmasters, here‘s how to get your sites crawled (or not) by their spider. It’s called Twiceler and it’s indexed over 121 billion pages so far. You will see the exact figure on their front page.

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To quote last week’s press release…

“Summary of Cuil?s features:

• Biggest Internet search engine?Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages, 3x more than any other search engine
• Organized results?Cuil?s magazine-style layout separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category
• Different results?Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity
• Complete privacy protection?Cuil does not keep any personally identifiable information on users or their search histories”