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Cuil for iPhone version 1.1 is now in the app store and includes the same Facebook Results you can find on Cuil.com. Alongside our index of 127+ billion web pages, streaming content from the realtime web, and related categories, you’ll now be able to login to Facebook and see results from your social graph.

Instead of simply searching for matching words in your friends’ profiles and wall posts, Cuil is able to identify related concepts that allow us to provide a much richer set of results. For example, if you search for “Hanukkah,” Cuil recognizes that this is a winter holiday and provides Facebook Results from friends who mention snow, gifts, decorations, other winter holidays, and so on.

Download the app from iTunes (it’s free!) and be on the lookout for frequent updates. As always, we look forward to your feedback!

Happy holidays from all of us at Cuil!

Between our product releases and feature upgrades, we like to have a bit a fun here at Cuil. With it being cold and blustery out, and being a Friday, we thought it would be appropriate to work in our pajamas. We had the full lineup represented: nightgowns, bathrobes, silk and even a onesie! Here, for no other reason than your entertainment, are photos of us working and meeting in Pajamas, teddy bears in hand. Who says startups are all work and no play?

We’re excited to announce that Cuil for iPhone is now available in the iTunes app store. This native app puts all the power of Cuil into an intuitive touch interface that is familiar to iPhone users, including our index of 127 billion web pages, long snippets with images, up-to-the-second streaming results, and related categories.

When you launch the app, you get lists of current, daily, and weekly trending topics from the realtime web. You can tap one of these that interests you, or enter your own query just as you would on the desktop. Within seconds, you have pages of search results, streaming results, and Cuil categories. You can tap any result to open the page in our built-in browser, or swipe to see the next result.

Download the app from iTunes (it’s free!) and be on the lookout for frequent updates to include new features such as Facebook integration. As always, we look forward to your feedback!

Cuil is pleased to announce the launch of Facebook Results, a unique look at your social graph. By linking your Facebook profile to Cuil, our advanced search algorithms can uncover interesting, useful and fun information about your Facebook friends. You can unlink at any time, and your privacy is always secure.

Cuil can uncover connections that wouldn’t be obvious with Facebook alone. Our breakthrough search technology analyzes and identifies ideas and related concepts throughout the web that we then apply to your friends’ profiles and status messages. This allows us to search in broader, more interesting ways, providing you with a richer experience.

For example, if you search for “U2,” Cuil knows that this is a famous Irish rock band with many hit records, among thousands of other facts. When this knowledge of U2 is applied to your social graph, Cuil could uncover friends who are Bono fans, are going to concerts this weekend, or even listen to “post-punk” music. The connections are limitless.

In addition, you can comment, “like” and visit your friends’ profiles right from the Cuil search page. You can even post interesting results you find to your wall using the “Share” link next to each result. To get started, just click “Connect with Facebook.” Once your profile is linked, keep an eye out for Facebook results on the right during your searches.

We have enhanced Cuil’s Streaming widget to let users search and track multiple topics concurrently.

If you click the expand icon on the main search page to launch the Streaming widget, you will find an option on the left to add more queries. As Cuil continues to discover new and relevant pages for any of these queries, it keeps refreshing the results for you. The results, in turn, are color-coded to indicate the relevant query.

You can add or remove queries at any point, upon which the results are updated. We allow up to six concurrent queries and eliminate any redundant ones.

The timescale slider continues to filter the best results for each query in a given time period. Similarly, we display other hot topics related to any of your search queries.