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”

• On Getting Found, Or, Search Engines: Is There A Difference?

  
  Uppity Wisconsin — Authority: 130
  I have a story today that comes from my predilection to “self-syndicate”, meaning that I post my stories far and wide, in the same way a newspaper columnist is syndicated nationally—or beyond. After I post, I know others will also post my stories to their sites, a topic that was itself the subject of a recent ...
  15 hours ago

• StraightUpSocial News Links for 12/2/2009

  
  StraightUpSocial — Authority: 124
  Facebook To Roll Out New Privacy Controls To Its 350 Million Users, Kills Regional Networks Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch shares an open letter from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who says the social network has grown to 350 million users, regional networks are being removed entirely, and privacy controls will be ...
  4 days ago

• Social Web as Next Frontier

  
  Communications and Technology Blog - Tehrani.com — Authority: 498
  Remember Cuil - the Google killer? The search engine launched with much fanfare and then disappeared from the scene pretty quickly when it was determined the sites results were not that good. Well the search engine is back with a new twist - social search. By utilizing Facebook Connect, the search engine brings ...
  5 days ago

• Interrobang your wall with this new Cuil Theory poster

  
  blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit — Authority: 528
  Licenseplate has done it again! Now theres a gorgeous poster to capture the essence and theory behind Cuil. You can get it here (bonus: it, and all of the other posters - reddit and xkcd - are on sale for a limited time).
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 525
  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 weeks ago

• Searching for the Hautest Search Engines

  
  Edopeno — Authority: 131
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• More on Cuil’s Non-Privacy Policy

  
  michaelzimmer.org — Authority: 413
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cuil’s Famous Privacy Policy No Longer Protects Privacy

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cuil’s Famous Privacy Policy No Longer Protects Privacy

  
  michaelzimmer.org — Authority: 413
  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 ...
  4 weeks 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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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