Let’s face it: the internet is a great resource full of information about anything you could imagine, but it can be extremely difficult to sift through lots of pages to find exactly what you need. Search results traditionally have been about giving you a list of relevant pages to explore based on your query, but today Cuil is launching a new way to visualize information  — timelines.

Augmenting our current functionality like maps, our timelines will appear on the far right of the page when you search for something that has a range of dates associated with it. Try it now — search for Abraham Lincoln and check out the timeline of events related to this great leader, or try Alan Turing for the history of the person who made a lot of this possible. We make it easy to explore the events in the timeline, just move your mouse over an event and a pop-up will appear with a longer description and a link to search for related pages.

Beyond people, timelines can be a useful tool for displaying information about a period in history, such as the Great Depression. Or a famous sports arena, like Madison Square Garden. Or, say, the highest bridge in the world, the Millau Viaduct.

Source: The Cuil Blog