Cuil

Cuil (pronounced cool, the name is Gaelic origin) was a search engine that was available to the public on 28 July 2008.

The website of the search engine was shut down on 17 September 2010 after the venture capital was completely consumed by 33 million dollars. The company should have until recently been in sales negotiations.

Cuil was founded among others by former IBM executive Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, who was responsible for the architecture of Google's large search index " TeraGoogle " once, which was commissioned in 2006. The developers intended with Cuil offer a sophisticated search engine, the results should be much more relevant than the other established search engines. The web pages have been indexed by content, and the results were shown in more detail in comparison to other search engines. Information on user activities were not collected Cuil claims to be.

According Cuil you had the sides covered with approximately 120 billion by far the largest search index of all known search engines, Google has only 40 billion. Google itself is its own index, however, with 1 trillion. The search engine had at the beginning of serious technical problems and provided some strange results.