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Type of site | Search engine |
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| Available in | Multilingual |
| Owner | Cuil, Inc. |
| URL | www.cuil.com (archived through Internet Archive) |
| Launched | July 28, 2008 |
| Current status | Down (September 17, 2010) |
Cuil (/ˈkuːl/ KOOL) was a search engine that organized web pages by content and displayed relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. Cuil said it had a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages.[1] It went live on July 28, 2008.[1] Cuil's servers were shut down on September 17, 2010, with later confirmations the service had ended.[2][3][4]
Cuil was managed and developed largely by former employees of Google, Anna Patterson and Russell Power. The CEO, co-founder, and Patterson's husband, Tom Costello, had worked for IBM and others.[5] Cuil's privacy policy,[6] unlike that of other search engines,[7] said it did not store users' search activity or IP addresses.[6]
- ^ a b Liedtke, Michael, "Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search"[dead link], Associated Press, 28 July 2008, retrieved 13 December 2009
- ^ Michael Arrington (2010-09-17). "Cuil Goes Down, And We Hear It's Down For Good". TechCrunch.
- ^ Devindra, Hardawar (2010-09-17). "Supposed Google-killer Cuil's reign of terror may finally be over". VentureBeat.
- ^ "Cuil is Stone Cold – Another 'Google Killer' Bites the Dust". Search Engine Watch. 2010-09-18. Archived from the original on 2010-09-20.
- ^ "Search site aims to rival Google". 2008-07-28. Archived from the original on 2021-12-02. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
- ^ a b Your privacy, Cuil, Last Modified: July 13, 2009
- ^ Liedtke, Michael (December 11, 2007). "Ask.com will purge search info in hours". The Journal Gazette. Fort Wayne Newspapers. Archived from the original on 2007-12-22. Retrieved 2007-12-11.