Cuil
| Cuil, Inc.
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| legal form | Incorporated |
| founding | 2006 |
| Seat | Menlo Park , USA |
| management | Tom Costello ( CEO ) |
| Branch | Search engine |
| Website | www.cuil.com ( Memento from August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) |
Cuil (pronounced how cool , the name is of Gaelic origin) was a search engine that became publicly available on July 28, 2008.
The search engine's website was shut down on September 17, 2010 after it ran out of $ 33 million in venture capital. The company is said to have been in sales negotiations until the end.
Cuil was founded by the former IBM manager Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, who was once responsible for the architecture of Google's large search index "TeraGoogle", which went into operation in 2006. With Cuil, the developers intended to offer a more sophisticated search engine whose results should be significantly more relevant than those of other established search engines. The web pages were cataloged according to content, and the hits were displayed in more detail compared to other search engines. According to Cuil, data on user activities were not collected.
According to Cuil, they had the largest search index of all known search engines, with around 120 billion recorded pages, while Google only had 40 billion. Google itself gives its own index, however, with 1 trillion . The search engine had serious technical problems at the beginning and sometimes returned strange search results.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ex-Googlers show new search engine . futurezone.orf.at. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ↑ Cuil Management . www.cuil.com. Archived from the original on July 29, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ↑ Meaning The specified by the operators of the word cuil with knowledge and "Hazel" is not correct and is based on a misinterpretation of a surname due to a history of Irish mythology: The Salmon of Knowledge ( en: Salmon of Knowledge ) lived in a pond which was surrounded by hazelnut bushes. This salmon ate nine hazelnuts that had fallen into the pond and thus gained the knowledge of the whole world. The Irish hero Fionn mac Cumhaill was supposed to cook this salmon for someone and through an incident he gained the knowledge of the world. The name Cumhaill was mistakenly equated with Cuill or cuil by the search engine operators, because the pronunciation of the words hardly differs. In Irish today, the word cuil simply means fly .
- ↑ Andreas Wilkens: New search engine Cuil wants to outdo Google . www.heise.de. July 28, 2008. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
- ↑ Willi Bredemeier: Cuil goes offline. (No longer available online.) PASSWORD online, September 22, 2010, archived from the original on September 26, 2011 ; Retrieved August 23, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Techcrunch: Cuil fails to be acquired , Sep. 20, 2010
- ^ Spiegel online, "Netzwelt" section, July 28, 2008
- ↑ taz: Search engines lack the depth , February 24, 2009
