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Ex-Googler, husband launch new Cuil search engine

Plan to index more Web pages than Google

July 28, 2008 12:00 PM ET

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Michael Hamanaka says: The quality of cuil search results is not good. The set of algorythms is very loose. although if they could...
Matt says: ...because a pithy pun in response to a performance issue is... just oh-so-Web-too-oh, don'cha think? "...our Cuil servers are running...


IDG News Service - A former Google Inc. employee and her husband launched a new search engine on Monday called Cuil (pronounced "cool"), aiming to topple Google by indexing more Web pages than the search giant.

Cuil Inc. in Menlo Park, Calif., is led by Anna Patterson, a former leader of Google's search index, and her husband, Tom Costello, who researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM. The two, president and CEO, respectively, met at Stanford.

Russell Power, the third co-founder of the group, also worked at Google on search indexing, Web rankings and spam detection. He works as vice president of engineering at Cuil.

The company, which shaved an 'L' off its name to become Cuil, said it has indexed 120 billion Web pages and can provide results organized by ideas with complete privacy for users.

Google on Friday said it had discovered 1 trillion unique Web pages on the Internet, but the company did not give an updated number on how many of those pages it has indexed.

Cuil said its search engine goes beyond traditional approaches by analyzing the context of each page and the concepts behind each query so it can provide better rankings by content rather than popularity. Cuil then organizes similar results into groups and sorts them by category. It also offers tabs to clarify subjects, as well as suggestions on how to refine searches.

Cuil isn't the first Google rival to launch this year. Wikia Search, a highly anticipated search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, made its official debut in January. Wikia Search hopes to provide better search results by allowing a community of users to index pages by using their Web page rankings and other suggestions, as well as its own indexing of the Web.


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