Technology Company Offers New Look at Search
MENLO PARK,
Calif.—July 28, 2008—Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new
approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which
combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods,
results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil
(www.Cuil.com ) has indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than
any other search engine.
Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant results based
on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s
search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the
context of each page and the concepts behind each query. It then
organizes similar search results into groups and sorts them by category.
Cuil
gives users a richer display of results and offers organizing features,
such as tabs to clarify subjects, images to identify topics and search
refining suggestions to help guide users to the results they seek.
“The
Web continues to grow at a fantastic rate and other search engines are
unable to keep up with it,” said Tom Costello, CEO and co-founder of
Cuil. “Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled
us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at
the fingertips of every user. In addition, Cuil presents searchers with
content-based results, not just popular ones, providing different and
more insightful answers that illustrate the vastness and the variety of
the Web.”
Cuil’s technology was developed by a team with
extensive history in search. The company is led by husband-and-wife
team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson. Mr. Costello researched and
developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM; Ms. Patterson
is best known for her work at Google, where she was the architect of
the company’s large search index and led a Web page ranking team. They
refused to accept the limitations of current search technology and
dedicated themselves to building a more comprehensive search engine.
Together with Russell Power, Anna’s former colleague from Google, they
founded Cuil to give users the opportunity to explore the Internet more
fully and discover its true potential.
“Since we met at
Stanford, Tom and I have shared a vision of the ideal search engine,”
said Anna Patterson, President and COO of Cuil. “Our team approaches
search differently. By leveraging our expertise in search architecture
and relevance methods, we’ve built a more efficient yet richer search
engine from the ground up. The Internet has grown and we think it’s
time search did too.”
Cuil’s methods guarantee online privacy
for searchers. Since the search engine ranks pages based on content
instead of number of clicks, personal data collection is unnecessary,
so personal search history is always private.
Summary of Cuil’s features:
- Biggest Internet search engine—Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages, 3x more than any other search engine
- Organized results—Cuil’s magazine-style layout separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category
- Different results—Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity
- Complete privacy protection—Cuil does not keep any personally identifiable information on users or their search histories
About Cuil
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. For
more information, please visit www.cuil.com.
Contacts
Vince Sollitto, Cuil
650-644-7288
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