29 Jul

Ex-Googler, husband launch Cuil new search engine

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A former Google employee and her husband launched a new search engine Monday called Cuil (pronounced “cool”), aiming to topple Google by indexing more Web pages than the search huge..

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Cuil, of Menlo Park, Calif., is led by Anna Patterson, a prior leader of Google’s search hand and her married man, Tom Costello, who researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM. The two, president and CEO, respectively, met at Stanford.

Russell Power, the third part cofounder of the group, also worked at Google on search indexing, Web rankings and spam detection. He works as vice president of engineering at Cuil.

The meeting of friends, which shaved an ‘L’ off its name to become Cuil, said it has indexed 120 billion Web pages and can provide results organized by ideas with full retirement concerning users.

Google on Friday said it had discovered 1 trillion peculiar Web pages on the Internet, but did not give an updated number on how many of those pages it has indexed.

Cuil said its peer into engine goes beyond traditional approaches by analyzing the context of each serving-boy and the concepts behind each query so it be possible to provide better rankings by content in some measure than popularity. Cuil then organizes similar results into groups and sorts them through category. It also offers tabs to clarify subjects, as well as suggestions put on how to refine searches.

Cuil isn’t the first Google contend with to launch this year. Wikia Search, a highly anticipated search engine from Wikipedia originator Jimmy Wales, made its official debut in January. Wikia Search hopes to provide better search results by allowing a community of users to index pages by using their Web page rankings and other suggestions, as well as its own indexing of the Web.