• GigaOm, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 2:55 PM

Meet Cpedia -- a new online encyclopedia from Cuil, which GigaOm's Mathew Ingram likens to the "cut up" technique that William S. Burroughs developed back in the late 1950s and early '60s. Pronounced "cool," Cuil itself launched in 2008, claiming to have developed a better and faster search engine than Google's.

Cpedia, in Ingram's opinion, "is destined to do at least one thing very well: make even the most poorly-researched Wikipedia page look like the repository of all the world's knowledge." In his blog post, Cpedia founder Tom Costello says his new product, "is very different from a traditional search engine, and not at all like Wikipedia, but that is its strength; it is something new and different."

"Unfortunately," notes Ingram, "being new and different doesn't necessarily mean that it is either good or useful."

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