Tepid response to rival search engine launched by ex-Googlers

A Californian start-up co-founded by engineers who helped create Google’s market-leading technology launched a rival search engine yesterday. It claims to scan three times as many web pages as Google but met with a lukewarm response.

A Californian start-up co-founded by engineers who helped create Google’s market-leading technology launched a rival search engine yesterday. It claims to scan three times as many web pages as Google but met with a lukewarm response.Cuil.com, pronounced “cool.com”, may present a problem for people who access the internet at work, as it is just a small typing error away from an Italian hardcore pornographic website, Culi.com.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/29/searchengines.googleCuil: Another Google Challenger Launches–to a Cool Reception
Just weeks after the last highly touted Google challenger, Powerset, was snapped up by Microsoft, a new one is launching Sunday night. Cuil (pronounced “cool” and previously sporting an additional “l”), boasts a Web index three times the assumed size of Google’s (though I’m not aware of Google admitting to a particular index size lately), a management team with an impressive pedigree (several people from Google), a different set of algorithms that in part analyze the content of pages, and a radically different presentation of search results.
http://businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/07/cuil_another_go.html

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