Ex-Google Engineers Debut 'Cuil' Way To Search

Ex-Google Engineers Debut 'Cuil' Way To Search

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer
2 hours, 6 minutes ago

SAN FRANCISCO - Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

She believes her latest invention is even more valuable — only this time it's not for sale.

Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.

The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.

Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers — Russell Power and Louis Monier — searched for better ways to search.

Now, it's boasting time.

For starters, Cuil's search index spans 120 billion Web pages

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I just tried searching "While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers"

On Cuil I got zero hits.

On Google I got 8950, and 12 of the first 13 were exact quotes.

More about them here...

Ya it's kind of screwy.

I've tried other search engines before but I keep going back to Google. I wish them luck though, if anything but to break up a virtual monopoly.

I'm a google fan, simply because they're the easiest to use with the best results.

In any case, I've got Cuil bookmarked, so I'll use it from time to time. If I ever think it's better for this or that kind of search over google, I'll use it. Because google is a fucking ULTRA LIBERAL company, and anything I can do to get myself away from them, I'll try it.

Google is the best of a bad bunch, as it uses a very flawed way to serch, and as msn,yahoo and alta-vista all use simalar models it means billions of pages aelost in deep web.

Noir wrote:Google is the best of a bad bunch, as it uses a very flawed way to serch, and as msn,yahoo and alta-vista all use simalar models it means billions of pages aelost in deep web.

I've been using Cuil lately... I'm getting used to it and kind of like it.

I'll use anything to get away from google.