Cuil

Cuil - which according to the site's "About Us" page is "an old Irish word for knowledge" - is one of the latest entries into the search engine world trying to unseat Google.

One of the big differences between Cuil and other search engines is that this one was started and managed by former employees of Google, including Anna Patterson, Louis Monier, Russell Power, and Tom Costello. At the time of its launch in July 2008, Cuil claimed to have indexed almost 125 billion sites, dwarfing what people initially expected from the site.

However, initial reviews of the search engine were tepid at best, including some that were scathing, including this one from CNet. Time also delivered its initial verdict, calling Cuil "no threat to Google."

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Cuil”

• Clicker.com wants to be the TV Guide of Internet television

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 581
  Can a TV Guide specifically for the Web work? Clicker.com seems to think so, even though it has a ton of competition already, including from TV Guide itself, and, uh, YouTube. This isn’t going to be one of those things we hear about and then completely forget, like Cuil , is it? SOURCE &&&&
  3 days ago

• Searching for the Hautest Search Engines

  
  Edopeno — Authority: 133
  Quick! What’s the old capital of Japan? Now before you run off to your favorite search engine to go and find the answer ( its Edo ), think for a minute what our lives would be like sans search engines. Go ahead I’ll let you ponder that for a while… Well? More tougher than it is now right? Imagine, if you ...
  4 days ago

• More on Cuil’s Non-Privacy Policy

  
  michaelzimmer.org — Authority: 510
  Yesterday I posted that Cuil , the supposed “Google-killer” search engine that once took pride in not keeping any logs of its users’ activities, had dramatically altered its privacy policy, effectively stripping it of the strong privacy-protecting language it originally contained. Since then, I’ve received 3 ...
  1 week ago

• Cuil’s Famous Privacy Policy No Longer Protects Privacy

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 149
  Michael Zimmer writes: Remember Cuil , the search engine launched in 2008 that was supposed to be a Google-killer? Didn’t think so. Anyway, one of Cuil’s touted competitive advantages was that it didn’t track user search queries . [...] After about a year of futility, Cuil updated their privacy policy on ...
  1 week ago

• Cuil’s Famous Privacy Policy No Longer Protects Privacy

  
  michaelzimmer.org — Authority: 510
  Remember Cuil , the search engine launched in 2008 that was supposed to be a Google-killer? Didn’t think so. Anyway, one of Cuil’s touted competitive advantages was that it didn’t track user search queries . Its original privacy policy (dated July 27, 2008) went to great lengths to make users feel ...
  1 week ago

• Blekko and The Google Killer Jinx

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 145
  The worst thing that any startup can do is say that they are a Google killer. It is natural for Rich Skrenta the founder of Blekko – a search engine – messaging the opposite . Rich writes: “…there is no such thing as a Google killer. No company is going to play David to their Goliath and slay them with a ...
  1 week ago

• Ex-Googlers Launch ‘Cuil.com’

  
  Rocking Team — Authority: 130
  Well lots of attempts have been made including claims of making a search engine better than google. There have been startups like Powerset or Mahalo both of which use natural language or human powered search results as the ‘better than google’ factor to their advantage. But even after the hoopla about who will ...
  4 weeks ago

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