07-29-2008, 08:57 AM
Quote:A startup search engine launched Monday, Cuil, hopes to prove that its search technology is cooler than that of the reigning king of search, Google. Cuil's creators -- former Google search architect Anna Patterson; her husband Tom Costello, a former researcher and developer at Stanford University and IBM; and Russell Power, another former Google executive -- claim they have pioneered a new take on the search game...
On the surface, the new search engine Cuil appears to be the anti-Google -- it's got a black background and greets visitors with an unequivocal promise of privacy. But if Cuil expects to overtake Google, it's probably in for a tough fight. Google is about much more than search these days, and its whole system is designed to keep users inside its family of products...
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