Cuil
Cuil 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
Wikipedia: Foras na Gaeilge, the official governing body of the Irish language, doubted the assertion that 'cuil' means 'knowledge'. "I am unaware myself of the meaning 'knowledge' being with the word 'cuil' in Irish," Stiofán Ó Deoráin, an official on Foras na Gaeilge's terminology committee, said.
Is Cuil Killing Websites?
Already more than one year ago Twiceler/Cuil brought our site down several times. After finding out the reason for our 'server problems' we contacted Cuil and they stopped visiting our site…. An anonymous tipster wrote to us this morning to tell us that Cuil 'I don't know what spawned it, but when Cuil
Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine | Webware - CNET
Google challenger Cuil launched last night in blaze of glory. I talked with Cuil VP of communications Vince Sollitto this morning about the launch issues. (Cuil did also crash briefly last night.) This is because Cuil isn't set up as a massively parallel search network the way, say, Google is.
Cuil Sucks At Search (Go Google!) — Elliott C. Back
Enter Cuil, a very serious competitor, packed with ex-Googlers (Tom Costello and Anna Patterson are the backbone of Cuil, and they've both worked at Google), and claiming to have the largest index of websites – 120 billion – in the world. It doesn't end there: Cuil pulls pretty much every trick in the book.
New search engine Cuil takes aim at Google | Webware - CNET
Costello realizes that Cuil needs to layer in additional services, but as he said to me, the company has to start somewhere. Upshot: Cuil is certainly worth trying out. As a business proposition, Cuil is obviously a big bet.
Wow, How Did Cuil Get So Much Publicity on Day 1?!
It's called Cuil and, if you're a reader of tech blogs and/or the New York Times, you've no doubt been hammered with the news all day. We checked Cuil out and had a mixed user experience, as did most of the commenters in the post. So it's a pretty average search engine, although like many before it Cuil
Cuil, the Google killer?
Does Cuil have what it takes? Can it provide some healthy competition to Google, market dominator? Here is a screenshot of the Cuil homepage: As you can see, Cuil has gone in for a sleek black interface, perhaps to differentiate itself from Google as much as possible.
Cuil | CrunchBase Profile
Cuil is a stealth search engine startup which claims that it can index web pages significantly faster and cheaper than Google. In some ways Cuil is the polar opposite of Powerset, which has huge indexing costs because it does a deep contextual analysis on every sentence on every web page.
Cuil Launches — Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google?
What's especially important is that the big three also offer more than the web search that Cuil is providing at launch. News search, image search, video search, local search — these are just some of the verticals that Cuil lacks but which do get used by searchers. Not offering these makes Cuil
Cuil search engine takes on Google - V3.co.uk - formerly vnunet.com
"The web continues to grow at a fantastic rate and other search engines are unable to keep up with it," said Tom Costello, chief executive and co-founder of Cuil. Tom Costello Cuil. A new search engine dubbed Cuil is hoping to offer a rival to the likes of Google, Yahoo and Ask.
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