Cuil Launches Biggest Online Search Engine

Technology Company Offers New Look

On Monday last, Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveiled 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) 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.

Cuil 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 former colleague Russell Power, they founded Cuil to give users the opportunity to explore the Internet more fully and discover its true potential. 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.