Monday, July 28, 2008
Former Google staffs launch rival search engine.
Two former Google engineers and a former IBM engineer are the three most prominent founders of a new Internet search engine called Cuil -pronounced "cool"- set to launch today. The start-up claim to have indexed 120billion web pages or three times more than Google and is using a different approach to search by ranking pages by their content and not by their popularity. Also, the results are presented differently , looking more like a magazine -style layout rather than a long list of links like on Google.
In case you were wondering which language in hell does cuil comes from ? The founders said it is from the Gaelic - Celtic- word meaning "knowledge" ; and interestingly, it was named Cuill until today when they shaved one of the l. Go figure.
To you Cuil founders, forget all the bragging about this and that and just keep this in mind : after getting the giant's attention , you better deliver and deliver quick. If not , you are just one letter away from a PR disaster : Cuil without the
" i " become Cul and you know what that means in French : Ass.
In case you were wondering which language in hell does cuil comes from ? The founders said it is from the Gaelic - Celtic- word meaning "knowledge" ; and interestingly, it was named Cuill until today when they shaved one of the l. Go figure.
To you Cuil founders, forget all the bragging about this and that and just keep this in mind : after getting the giant's attention , you better deliver and deliver quick. If not , you are just one letter away from a PR disaster : Cuil without the
" i " become Cul and you know what that means in French : Ass.
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