Good for research - better than both google and wikipedia

I have been using google for about 8 years or so, and have noticed the results are not really great anymore. Needing a better research tool.

I came a accross a site called cuil(pronounced cool). I haven't seen anything like it for a search engine. It has automatic timeline location map matching, relevant searches outrank popular searches, result partitioning, result categories, and live results (twitter etc...).

example search for bob lazar (automatic timeline built) -> www.cuil.com...

I think this is the de-ranking of google. Also for those who don't know....

A quote from Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google: 'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines — including Google — do retain this information for some time...' Ars Technica also covers the story." - arstechnica.com...