Cuil - A New Search Engine More Powerful than Google?
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August 9th, 2008
Launched on July 28, 2009, the new CUIL search engine Cuil.com may be poised to take on (and possibly overtake) the behemoth Google.
Cuil’s technology was developed and 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.
Patterson and Costello 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.
I tried some parallel searches using both Cuil and Google with some interesting results.
Cuil is definitely slower than Google, but the results are well documented and highly relevant to the search terms used. Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity.
Cuil also claims to be the biggest search engine on the Internet, having indexed 120 billion Web pages, which amounts to more than three times the pages indexed by any other search engine, including Google.
It will be interesting to see how Cuil develops, and whether or not it will, in fact, become a serious rival of Google.
VISIT WEBSITE: Cuil.com
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