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Former Googlers Launch New Search EnginePOSTED July 28, 2008 MENLO PARK -- Cuil, a new startup based in Silicon Valley, has launched a new search engine run by a husband and wife team that used to work for Google. Cuil says it has the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil says it has indexed over 180 billion Web pages, three times as many as Google and 10 times as many as Microsoft. Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond current search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page and the concepts behind each query. It then organizes similar search results into groups and sorts them by category. Cuil gives users a richer display of results and offers organizing features, such as tabs to clarify subjects, images to identify topics and search refining suggestions to help guide users to the results they seek. "The Web continues to grow at a fantastic rate and other search engines are unable to keep up with it," said Tom Costello, CEO and co-founder of Cuil. "Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user. In addition, Cuil presents searchers with content-based results, not just popular ones, providing different and more insightful answers that illustrate the vastness and the variety of the Web." Cuil's technology was developed by a team with extensive history in search. The company is led by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson. Mr. Costello researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM; Ms. Patterson is best known for her work at Google, where she was the architect of the company's large search index and led a Web page ranking team. They refused to accept the limitations of current search technology and dedicated themselves to building a more comprehensive search engine. Together with Russell Power, Anna's former colleague from Google, they founded Cuil to give users the opportunity to explore the Internet more fully and discover its true potential. "Since we met at Stanford, Tom and I have shared a vision of the ideal search engine," said Anna Patterson, President and COO of Cuil. "Our team approaches search differently. By leveraging our expertise in search architecture and relevance methods, we've built a more efficient yet richer search engine from the ground up. The Internet has grown and we think it's time search did too." Cuil is located in Menlo Park and has received series A funding
from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners, and series B funding
from Madrone Capital Partners. Cuil says its name comes from
an old Irish word for knowledge, reflecting the background of
co-founder and CEO, Tom Costello, who hails from Drogheda, Ireland. © Copyright SVDaily.com |
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