Cuil - The World's Biggest Search Engine

Cuil (pronounced [kuːl], "cool") 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.^[1][2]

Unlike other search engines,^[3] Cuil's privacy policy states that it does not store records of users’ search activity or IP addresses.^[4]

Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google: Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier.^[5] Another founder, Tom Costello, has worked for IBM and others.^[6] The company raised $33 million in venture capital from Greylock and others.^[7]

Here are some of the references

1. ^ ^{a b} Liedtke, Michael, Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search, Associated Press, 28 July 2008, retrieved 28 July 2008
2. ^ http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080728/google_challenger.html
3. ^ Liedtke, Michael (December 11, 2007). "Ask.com will purge search info in hours", Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne Newspapers. Retrieved on 2007-12-11.
4. ^ http://www.cuil.com/info/privacy/
5. ^ "Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine - NYTimes.com". nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-28.
6. ^ news.bbc.co.uk, Search site aims to rival Google
7. ^ Crunchbase: Cuil Profile
8. ^ http://www.cuil.com/info/faqs/#faq4
9. ^ Needleman, Rafe (July 28, 2008). "Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine", CNET news, CNET. Retrieved on 2008-07-28.
10. ^ Hamilton, Anita (July 28, 2008). "Why Cuil is No Threat to Google", Time.com, Time Magazine Online. Retrieved on 2008-07-28.
11. ^ Burdick, Dave (July 28, 2008). "Cuil Review: Really? No Dave Burdicks? This Search Engine Is Stupid", huffingtonpost.com, Huffington Post. Retrieved on 2008-07-28.
12. ^ Metz, Cade (July 29, 2008). "Ex-Googlers reinvent web search", www.theregister.co.uk, The Register. Retrieved on 2008-07-29.
13. ^ Sullivan, Danny (July 28, 2008). "Cuil Launches -- Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google?", search engine land blog, Search Engine Land. Retrieved on 2008-07-28

Source- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil

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