Do you have a search site? Submit it free to the internet's best search industry directory. » Click Here Search Engines Google, Yahoo, MSN... Search Marketing Marketing, Budget, Planning... Pay Per Click Bid, Price, Quality... SEO Companies Optimization, Manage, Company... SEO Tools Track, Search, Create... Analytics Statistics, Counter... » Submit your site for FREE « More... Get Your Site Submitted for Free in the World's Largest B2B Directory! Email Address: * URL: * *Indicates Mandatory Field Terms & Conditions Titan Quest Forum Nintendo Wii Graphics Forum Halo 3 Forum Mac Software Former Google Employees Try Being Cuil By: Aurora Brown 2008-07-29 Cuil is a search engine that came to life on July 28, 2008. Cuil was conceived by former employees of Google. Cuils founders are Anna Patterson, tom Costello, Russell Power and Louis Monier, all former Google employees. Tom Costello has worked for IBM and various other companies. Former Google Employees Being Cuil To differentiate itself, Cuil organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. Unlike other search engines,Cuils privacy policy states that it does not store records of users search activity or IP addresses. Now for the nitty gritty: how does it REALLY work? Well, the first day doesnt bode to well. Cuil was down for most of its launch day. According to Cnets interview, Cuil suffered from heavy first-day overloads and VP of communications Vince Sollitto said Cuil will only improve with time. Its day one. Traffic is massive. Were new. There are bugs to fix, results to improve. When I searched for free food my first time using Cuil, I got zero results. Then I turned off safe search and it bumped up to 142, 853. If its trying to compete with Google, its sorely lacking. The same result got me 66,500,000 results in Google. Those numbers just dont add up. Ok, so it might take time. But before we start comparing to Google, lets wait for better results. Another big wrench in its nascent Google killer rep? No advertising. Now, I like that, but if it cant come up with an advertising platform to rival Googles, it hasnt a hope of besting it. One of the biggest advantages of Googles massive advertising platform is that it allows for better search results. Cuil claims it wont monitor a users search habits in order to target advertising the way Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft do. Thats an admirable goal, but that information is what has allowed all the search engines to refine their algorithms and provide more relevant results. IMHO, the best Cuil is looking at for the time being is solidifying itself in a niche position and presenting itself as an attractive acquisition for the big kahunas: Yahoo, MSN, Google. For now, Ill wait while it bumps along and stick with using a sure bet: Google. Comments View All Articles by Aurora Brown About the Author: Aurora Brown is the editor and head copywriter for Social Media Systems online marketing company and specializes in producing powerful, accessible content for the web. She co-authors the 3net Search Engine Marketing Blog and is working on her first novel.

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