Cuil Overview
Cuil (pronounced COOL) is a search engine that combines the largest Web index with content-based relevance methods, organized results, and complete user privacy. The company’s next generation approach to search is the result of proprietary breakthroughs in search architecture and ranking algorithms. Cuil’s employees have extensive experience in search, having worked at Google, IBM, eBay,...More»
Cuil (pronounced COOL) is a search engine that combines the largest Web index with content-based relevance methods, organized results, and complete user privacy. The company’s next generation approach to search is the result of proprietary breakthroughs in search architecture and ranking algorithms. Cuil’s employees have extensive experience in search, having worked at Google, IBM, eBay, AltaVista, Stanford University, the Internet Archive and other technology companies and research centers. Cuil is located in Menlo Park, California and has received series A funding from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners, and series B funding from Madrone Capital Partners. Cuil derives its name from an old Irish word for knowledge, reflecting the background of co-founder and CEO, Tom Costello, who hails from Drogheda, Ireland.«Less
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| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| 03/2007 | Series A | 8M | Unknown | |
| 04/2008 | Series B | 25M | Unknown |
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| Name: | Cpedia |
| Product URL: | http://www.cpedia.com/ |
| Description: | Traditionally, search engines have returned a list of references in response to a query — ten blue links. Cpedia changes this. A natural way for people to receive information is a report — a summary of the topic. Current search results are more analogous to receiving a bibliography than a sourced report. For each query, Cpedia algorithmically summarizes and clusters the ideas on the web and uses this to generate a report. We do the heavy lifting of removing all the repetition, so that unique and novel content surfaces. Just as Wikipedia uses the effort of a large number of people to edit a topic, we combine all the documents written about an idea on the web to generate one article. |
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Bulls vs. Bears (19)
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good indexing technology - bad search algorithms = not taking on google but acquired by msft. |
tecarmona 07/31/2008 |
67% 3 votes 2 33% 1 |
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Cuil > Google |
vivektaneja 07/30/2008 |
40% 5 votes 2 60% 3 |
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good search engine, way quicker results |
sebbyswein 07/28/2008 |
75% 4 votes 3 25% 1 |
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search results easy to browse |
fudgywudgy 07/28/2008 |
50% 2 votes 1 50% 1 |
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interface is clean and simple |
fudgywudgy 07/28/2008 |
50% 4 votes 2 50% 2 |
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They claim to not save search information, which is appealing to users concerned about privacy |
mcmr 07/28/2008 |
100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
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They claim to index 3 times the pages as Google |
mcmr 07/28/2008 |
67% 6 votes 4 33% 2 |
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They raised a lot of money |
kenny 04/30/2008 |
100% 6 votes 6 0% 0 |
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Strong founding team. |
green33 04/08/2008 |
100% 8 votes 8 0% 0 |
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If they deliver on their promise of faster cheaper indexing than Google than they've created value |
danl 03/24/2008 |
100% 11 votes 11 0% 0 |
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After trying cuil, my fallback search to Google is now Bing |
acegopher 09/29/2009 |
100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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Their search engine still does not convince me to use it. |
solphusion 09/20/2009 |
100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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Very few people use it, completely forgotten |
keira85 12/29/2008 |
100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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Many sites are starting to block their indexing bots due to their aggressive indexing |
john 09/01/2008 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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traffic seems to have significantly dipped after the launch hype |
alexdao 08/10/2008 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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No one will out-do Google |
bbrunelle 08/07/2008 |
100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
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It doesn't seem to be a significant enough improvement from Google for users to switch |
techgeek4 07/28/2008 |
100% 6 votes 6 0% 0 |
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Lots of hype - wonder if they will ever launch
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green33 06/30/2008 |
56% 9 votes 5 44% 4 |
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It seems to be an uphill battle to compete against Google |
john 04/08/2008 |
92% 12 votes 11 8% 1 |
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