Over on SEL Danny Sullivan has a great review of new search engine Cuil (apparently it is pronounced ‘cool’). On first use I can’t say I was impressed. The engine has a huge index and a web 2.0 result page layout. One to watch. I would agree with Scoble that they may be looking to cash out like Powerset did to Microsoft.
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Riaz Kanani // 28 July 2008 at 4:15 pm |
it does look like they stumbled on the release – the overall mutterings online has been pretty negative.. it doesn’t look liek they’ll convert the tech crowd just yet. Maybe tomorrow
simonbaptist // 29 July 2008 at 8:43 am |
Cuil is interesting as it comes out of the Google post-IPO brain drain.
I’ve had Cuil on my one to watch list after reading this Wired article that tried to keep up to date with what people from Google have gone on to do (build the next Google maybe?).
dylanfuller // 31 July 2008 at 12:48 pm |
Yep, ex-Googlers and more interesting is that Louis Monier is also behind this new search engine as well. Many folks will not know or remember that he was CTO at Alta Vista and is one of the godfather’s of web search. Didn’t Larry & Sergy try to sell Google to AV once upon a time? Louis is a true legend! And thanks, Simon for the link…