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Bookmark and Share Cuil Challenges Google With Privacy Founded by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, Cuil aims to rank the relevancy search results by content analysis rather than by popularity.
The Internet has grown and we think it's time search did, too." For Cuil, pronounced "Cool" rather than "Quill," there's a separation between search and surveillance. Whereas Google records information about its users and their searches to improve the user experience and to deliver more relevant search results and ads, Cuil remembers nothing.
Ixquick, as a metasearch engine, gets results from other search engines. Cuil, however, offers new search technology and a column-based search results interface. It remains to be seen whether computer users care about privacy enough to alter their search habits. In terms of performance, Cuil is responsive and looks good, at least when the service is up. "Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now," a Cuil error message said just before noon Pacific time on Monday. "The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity." But Cuil leaves something to be desired in terms of the relevance of the images it places beside search results. "We do our best to take images from Web pages that accurately reflect the content of the Web site," Cuil's FAQs document explains. "Many Web sites are full of images, so we use advanced algorithms to determine the best image to show the user." Advanced though they may be, Cuil's algorithms aren't yet accurate when it comes to placing images with links to related content.
com graphic to link to a blog that published a review of a book I wrote. Google News has had similar issues, associating unrelated text and images. Though Cuil may aspire to challenge Google, it has some basic service and accuracy issues to deal with first. After that, it can join Exalead, Hakia, Mahalo, Powerset, and Wikia in their quests to challenge the big-league search engines.
Collaboration in a Web 20 World From real-time messaging to knowledge sharing to social networking, Web 20 technologies are changing the way companies collaborate, allowing them to find resources and gain knowledge quickly and efficiently.
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