There is a new search engine on the block, you've got to admire someone who's got the balls to take google on!

Check CUIL out.

My first impressions are that it's fast, it doesn't have a geographical filter like google which might make looking for online stores in your country a problem, unless it handles this behind the scenes.

As you would expect it's index is not as complete as google, I have a three websites and it only found one of them but it may just take some time to get round to the others.

I'm hoping it will be Bot unfriendly, last time I trawled my weblog's live search was referring very open ended searchs to my site, i'm guessing this is bots submitting search words from a dictionary and then working through the list of results, but i'm not sure. One thing I know is that google does not show up in the logs in this way.

One thing I know is competition is healthy if this new site can steal some market share from google it will help to keep google honest.

Robert Scoble has posted on his blog about it.