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Google is going to be getting some serious competition from people they used to employ. Former workers of Google have left the company to launch their own search engine - which they believe will become more popular and useful then Google’s search site.

The new search engine is called Cuil - which is Gaelic for hazel and knowledge. The creators state that it has a more comprehensive list of information. The technology it uses to index the web can understand the context surrounding each page and the concepts driving search requests, say the founders. Yet, many analysts are not convinced that it will overtake one of the biggest sear engines on the web.

Cuil, pronounced “cool”, says it uses more than 120 billion webpages to build up its index of the information it finds on the web. It claims this is more than Google uses though the search giant has stopped reporting how much it indexes. Without revealing numbers Google claimed its index was still bigger.

Instead of just looking at the number and quality of links to and from a webpage as Google’s technology does, Cuil attempts to understand more about the information on a page and the terms people use to search. Results are displayed in a magazine format rather than a list. The company is also trying to set itself apart from Google by not retaining any information about what people search for.