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Cuil Launches Biggest Search Engine on the Web

 

Technology Company Offers New Look at Search

 

MENLO PARK, Calif.—July 28, 2008—Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil (www.Cuil.com) has indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine.

 

Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page and the concepts behind each query. It then organizes similar search results into groups and sorts them by category.

 

Cuil gives users a richer display of results and offers organizing features, such as tabs to clarify subjects, images to identify topics and search refining suggestions to help guide users to the results they seek.

 

“The Web continues to grow at a fantastic rate and other search engines are unable to keep up with it,” said Tom Costello, CEO and co-founder of Cuil. “Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user. In addition, Cuil presents searchers with content-based results, not just popular ones, providing different and more insightful answers that illustrate the vastness and the variety of the Web.”

 

Cuil’s technology was developed by a team with extensive history in search. The company is led by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson. Mr. Costello researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM; Ms. Patterson is best known for her work at Google, where she was the architect of the company’s large search index and led a Web page ranking team. They refused to accept the limitations of current search technology and dedicated themselves to building a more comprehensive search engine. Together with Russell Power, Anna’s former colleague from Google, they founded Cuil to give users the opportunity to explore the Internet more fully and discover its true potential.

 

“Since we met at Stanford, Tom and I have shared a vision of the ideal search engine,” said Anna Patterson, President and COO of Cuil. “Our team approaches search differently. By leveraging our expertise in search architecture and relevance methods, we’ve built a more efficient yet richer search engine from the ground up. The Internet has grown and we think it’s time search did too.”

 

Cuil’s methods guarantee online privacy for searchers. Since the search engine ranks pages based on content instead of number of clicks, personal data collection is unnecessary, so personal search history is always private.

 

Summary of Cuil’s features:

 

Biggest Internet search engine—Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages, 3x more than any other search engine

Organized results—Cuil’s magazine-style layout separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category

Different results—Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity

Complete privacy protection—Cuil does not keep any personally identifiable information on users or their search histories

About Cuil

Cuil (pronounced COOL) is a search engine that combines the largest Web index with content-based relevance methods, organized results, and complete user privacy. The company’s next generation approach to search is the result of proprietary breakthroughs in search architecture and ranking algorithms. Cuil’s employees have extensive experience in search, having worked at Google, IBM, eBay, AltaVista, Stanford University, the Internet Archive and other technology companies and research centers. Cuil is located in Menlo Park, California and has received series A funding from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners, and series B funding from Madrone Capital Partners. Cuil derives its name from an old Irish word for knowledge, reflecting the background of co-founder and CEO, Tom Costello, who hails from Drogheda, Ireland. For more information, please visit www.cuil.com.

 

Contacts

Vince Sollitto, Cuil

650-644-7288

press@cuil.com

 

Andrea MacLean, Manning Selvage & Lee

415-293-2796

andrea.maclean@mslpr.com

 

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I think it's much better looking then Google or any other search site, but that's just me. What about you?

 

www.cuil.com

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I find that layout much harder when searching for "non-obvious" pages.

You have to look around the page at each heading where as with google you can rip down the list super fast.

 

Worse than that, the results don't seem very good. I tried insanely mac and my last name as search criteria and both returned zero results. All other engines found this site and my home page just fine.

 

Edit: Seems their servers are already overwhelmed by people trying it. Not what I want for my search engine. :D

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Erm, there's no harm in trying...

 

Just because Google is more widely used, doesn't mean that these guys can't capture some market share.

 

That's like when Apple launched iPhone, everyone thought RIM was untouchable, and that they'd never lose share, etc.

 

It's called being open minded. I laud these guys for trying in such a hard market and am keen on seeing on what they may bring in the future.

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I honestly don't care what they say. Google is THE search engine. They are dominating the search market share and show no signs of slowing down. Seriously, these random other companies show up and expect to beat google at their own game? Pfsh hahaha!

 

moar newz plz kthx

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I really don't like this site at all. Searching 'insanely mac netkas' brings up nothing, while all other search engines can take me to netkas's profile on insanely.

 

This site is good if you want to learn about something new, but for finding really specific things it's awful.

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I honestly don't care what they say. Google is THE search engine. They are dominating the search market share and show no signs of slowing down. Seriously, these random other companies show up and expect to beat google at their own game? Pfsh hahaha!

 

Those with long memories will recall when Yahoo & similar were the premier search engines, then Altavista pwned them all, only to be overtaken by Google.. evolution will happen, and having more options can't be a bad thing, espedcially for all those people concerned about google's plans for world domination. :P

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"Insanely mac" brings up 1,623,146 results and "insanelymac" brings up 85,640 results, or did you mean that you combined your last name with that term?

Checking my history it seems it butchered the name it sent as search terms.

 

I still don't care for it.

It's too slow. (which may be easily fixed in the future)

 

IMHO, they need to have options for changing the layout. When you are searching for pages and you're not 100% what you are looking for or the best terms to use, I find that layout is more time consuming to scan the individual results to see if you are close.

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Cuil looks like a really wonderful search engine. Unfortunately, the name "cuil" is:

1) harder to type fast than "google"

2) harder to pronounce without it being explained (if it were so easy to pronounce, the article wouldn't have specified "COOL")

 

So it might not catch on.

 

But, I hope it will, since it is really innovative and awesome.

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Not impressed overall. It's pretty looking, but quite inefficient. The results do not seem to be as "intelligent" as Google and all the preview garbage is just bells & whistles IMHO. When you need to find info, you just need the info. It reminds me how MS Vista tried to go "pretty".

 

Google relies on search results and attempts in some magical way to anticipate your inquiries by reading your mind...or so it seems. CUIL for me stands for Can't Understand Intelligent Listings...or maybe Language...or Logic. Whatever. I tried its search for my regular evening of infotainment and I was quickly irritated by the illogical results. So for this surfer, CUIL = {censored}.

 

Sorry guys. You got a long road ahead of you before you can consider yourselves a serious competitor to Google. Good luck though. Maybe in about 10-15 years you might have a shot.

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