Cuil is a new search Web site which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods — results organized by ideas.
Cuil 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 company is led by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson.
Costello researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM.
Patterson was the architect of Google’s large search index and led a Web-page ranking team.
Together with Russell Power, Anna’s former colleague from Google, they founded Cuil.
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.
The launch has been so successful that right now their servers are out of service!
For many hours it was very slow.
So, not a good take off for a search engine that wants to compete with Google.
By declaring its aim of taking on Google, Cuil joins a long list of others that have tried and largely failed to dent the search giant’s market share.
Other contenders include Teoma, Vivisimo, Snap, Mahalo and Powerset.
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