Tuesday 4 November 2008

Cuil - The New Internet's Coolest Search Engine

Many of you know Google, many of you know Yahoo and many of you know MSN Search. So what's Cuil? A Wikipedia entry tell us what:

Cuil (pronounced [kuːl], "cool", according to the creators) is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. It went live on July 28, 2008.

Cuil's privacy policy, unlike that of other search engines, says it does not store users’ search activity or IP addresses.

Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google: Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier, who has since quit the company. The CEO and co-founder, Tom Costello, has worked for IBM and others. The company raised $33 million from venture capital firms including Greylock.


Well, it does seem like a promising search engine, but will it be able to build a war against Google? At the moment that seems quite unlikely, as Google has so many features and services avaible, but only time will tell.

Regards,
Young Geek

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