CloseClinical aims to provide a community environment for academics and professionals interested in health and clinical research informatics.

The new search engine: www.cuil.com (pronounce Cool) is made by a number of ex-Google employees and claims indexing 121,617,892,992 web pages, which is believed to be ten times more than what Google indexes today.

The search results are presented in a more "cool" layout with text and images. The user can decide for the number of columns (2 or 3), and there are a number of tabs which groups of results which are related to each other (which implies that the search engine is probably capable of generating an ontology). The styly interface can be presented also by some tabs.

The owners of the project claim that this search engine does not people's search history like Google does, and it works in a more honest and humanistic way, saving the privacy of internet surfers.

There is no apparent advertising; therefore, one may ask how they will be able to gain enough money to battle with the king of advertisers!

One can see a number of shortcomings even with the first round of tests: In comparison with Google, results seem to be less coherent to search "key words", especially if they are numerous, and especailly for languages other than English.This may be because of the mere automatic mechanism of Cuil's search engine, compared to humanly indexed pages of Google. Of course, with some learning "algorithm" they enhance the pertinence of search results.

The preferences are rather few (only two preferences, one on safe search and the other on typing suggestions.

As the last word, Cuil presents an other way of viewing search results that has not been presented neither by Microsoft, nor by Yahoo. It merits to be tested: http://www.cuil.com !