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(pronounced “cool”). Company Profile. based in Menlo Park. Founded in 2007 by Tom Costello, Anna Patterson, and Russell Power. Points of Differentiation. biggest internet search 120 billion site index
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Company Profile based in Menlo Park • Founded in 2007 • by • Tom Costello, Anna Patterson, • and Russell Power
Points of Differentiation • biggest internet search 120 billion site index • organized results cuil’s unique result layout • different results results based on content, not popularity • complete privacy protection no user data collected
Percentage of U.S. based searches among leading search engine providers data based on March 2008 findings1
Is all that ? “As of now, it's a worthy challenger and the size of its search index is impressive, but in the end, all consumers are going to care about is the quality of the search results, and there, Cuil's results are still too inconsistent.” www.readwriteweb.com2
Is all that ? “If it turns out that the 80 billion pages they claim to have that Google doesn’t are important to winning users, how long before Google adds those to its index? Same thing with some innovation in user interface.” bits.blogs.nytimes.com3
Sources www.cuil.com 7/29/08 www.bbc.co.uk/2/technology/7528503.stm 1www.hitwise.com 2www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cuil_good_but_not_good_enough.php 3http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/cuils-new-search-engine-cheaper-than-google-but-not-better/?scp=3&sq=cuil&st=cse