Cuil (pronounced /ˈkuːl/ "cool" according to the creators) is a search engine A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a list of results and are often called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. In the age of digital images, visual search engines and image-organizing programs normally use thumbnails, as do most modern operating systems or desktop environments, such as pictures for many results. Cuil says it has a larger index than any other search engine A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a list of results and are often called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web, with about 120 billion web pages A web page or webpage is a document or resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a monitor or mobile device.[1] It went live on July 28, 2008.[1]

Cuil's privacy policy, unlike that of other search engines,[2] says it does not store users’ search activity or IP addresses An Internet Protocol address is a numerical label that is assigned to devices participating in a computer network, that uses the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing. Its role has been characterized as follows: "A.[3]

Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google Google Inc. is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the ", Anna Patterson and Russell Power. The CEO A chief executive officer or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer (executive) or administrator in charge of total management of an organization. An individual appointed as CEO of a corporation, company, organization, or agency reports to the board of directors and co-founder, Tom Costello, has worked for IBM International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer, technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, North Castle, New York, United States. IBM is the world's fourth largest technology company and the second most valuable by global brand (after Coca-Cola). IBM is one of the few information technology companies and others.[4] The company has raised $33 million from venture capital Venture capital is a type of private equity capital typically provided for early-stage, high-potential, growth companies in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realization event such as an IPO or trade sale of the company. Venture capital investments are generally made in cash in exchange for shares in the invested company. It firms including Greylock Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $2 billion under management. The firm focuses on early stage companies in the consumer, enterprise software and infrastructure as well as semiconductor sectors.[5] In 2010, Cuil Inc. was recognized as one of the leading Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, HP, Intel, Cisco, eBay, Adobe, Agilent, Oracle, Yahoo, Netflix, and EA. The term originally referred to the region's large number of companies by Lead411.[6]

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Name

The Irish ancestry of Anna Patterson's husband Tom Costello sparked the name Cuil, which the company states is taken from a series of Celtic folklore stories The Fenian Cycle or Fiannaidheacht , also known as the Fionn Cycle, Finn Cycle, Fianna Cycle, Finnian Tales, Fian Tales, Féinne Cycle, Feinné Cycle and Ossianic Cycle, is a body of prose and verse centering on the exploits of the mythical hero Fionn mac Cumhaill and his warriors the Fianna Éireann. It is one of the four major cycles of Irish involving a character, Fion mac Cumhaill, they erroneously refer to as Finn MacCuil .[1] The company says that Cuil is Irish Irish is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language only by a small minority of the Irish population but is also used as a second language by a larger and expanding minority[citation needed]. It also plays an important for knowledge and hazel The hazels are a genus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate northern hemisphere. The genus is usually placed in the birch family Betulaceae, though some botanists split the hazels (with the hornbeams and allied genera) into a separate family Corylaceae.[7]

Some linguists are unsure of this derivation and pronunciation,[8] and note that the modern Irish word for hazel is spelled coll[9] (coill or cuill in genitive form, the former spelling having superseded the latter as a result of the Caighdeán Oifigiúil Irish is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language only by a small minority of the Irish population, and as a second language by a larger minority. It continues to have a symbolic role in the life of the Irish state, and reforms of the mid-twentieth century). Foras na Gaeilge Foras na Gaeilge is the governing body of the Irish language, set up on 2 December 1999, which is responsible for the promotion of the language throughout the island of Ireland. It assumed the roles of Bord na Gaeilge, An Gúm, and An Coiste Téarmaíochta, which had formerly been state bodies under the Irish Government, the official governing body of the Irish language, doubted the assertion that 'cuil' means 'knowledge'.[8] "I am unaware myself of the meaning 'knowledge' being with the word 'cuil' in Irish," Stiofán Ó Deoráin, an official on Foras na Gaeilge's terminology committee, said.[8] Even pre-Caighdeán dictionaries such as Dineen[10] do not associate the cuil spelling with knowledge or hazel. Dineen only lists two nouns and one adjective with the spelling cuil: "f., a fly, a horse-fly...", "f., a venemous aspect; great eagerness..." and "gs. of col, as a., wicked."

The company name had previously been spelled Cuill.[11]

History

Cuil launched in July 2008 with an index of 121,617,892,992 web pages.[12]

About one month after launch, Cuil's Product VP and search technologist, Louis Monier, quit the company citing disagreements with the CEO, Tom Costello.[13]

On December 19, 2008, BusinessWeek It was first published in 1929 [clarification needed] under the direction of Malcolm Muir, who was serving as president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing company at the time. Prior to 1929, it was titled System, published out of Chicago by Arch W. Shaw, the first publisher of Harvard Business Review.), when the A.W. Shaw Co. was purchased by McGraw- listed Cuil as one of the most successful U.S. startups of 2008, based on the amount of money they raised.[14]

As of February, 2009, Cuil has 127 billion indexed pages.[15]

Usage

According to Alexa Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and website. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the website where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's web traffic reporting, the site reached a peak of just over 0.2% of worldwide internet users in late July 2008 and by September 12, 2008, it had dropped to 0.02% and ranked as the 5,340th site by traffic. By October 13, 2008, it had dropped to 0.005% and ranked as the 21,960th site in traffic.[16]

Special features

Recently Cuil has added some integration with Facebook Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc., with more than 500 million active users in July 2010.[N 1] Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks. A user can log into their Facebook account via Cuil and Cuil will then search the user's friends' updates for popular topics. Links are then provided to allow the user to search these topics. The user can also send messages to their friends through Cuil.[17]

Cuil has been working on Cpedia, the automated encyclopedia. Cpedia works by algorithmically summarizing and clustering ideas on the web [18], which creates encyclopedia-like reports. Instead of displaying search results, Cuil will show Cpedia articles that matches the searched terms. It is aimed to reduce duplication by combining information into one document.

Languages

Recently, Cuil is available in 8 languages, and there will be more available languages in the future.[19][20]

Criticism

Cuil has received widely critical press coverage.[21][22][23] Concerns were expressed about the website's slow response times, irrelevant or wrong search results[24][25][26] and in at least one case, inappropriately pornographic images displayed alongside search results.[27] Danny Sullivan Search Engine Land is owned by Third Door Media, of which Danny Sullivan is partner and chief content officer. Third Door Media also owns and operates other search related companies, including Search Marketing Now, which provides webcasts and webinars, both live and on demand, about web marketing; and Search Marketing Expo, a search engine of Search Engine Watch Search Engine Watch is a website that provides news and information about search engines and search engine marketing questioned the validity of Cuil's claim that it had the world's largest search engine index and criticized it for focusing on size rather than relevance In the context of information science and information retrieval, relevance denotes how well a retrieved set of documents meets the information need of the user.[28] Despite reported problems with search results, Net Applications reported that for the last three days of July 2008, Cuil beat Google and Yahoo in the amount of time spent on a site after referral from a search engine, a key metric for relevancy of search results.[29]

According to an interview with a Cuil representative, while other Web 2.0 The term "Web 2.0" is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, launches using massively parallel processing might fail with a slow down or crash,[21] Cuil's architecture was responding with incomplete, "less-than-relevant results that then appear at the top of users' pages."[24][26] Cuil's VP of communications Vince Sollitto said the search engine was experiencing heavy first-day overloads and they were "busy putting out fires." Sollitto said Cuil "will only improve with time. It's day one. Traffic is massive. We're new. There are bugs to fix, results to improve."[21]

After the initial critical press coverage Cuil was alleged to have caused issues for some websites, owing to how the Cuil indexing robot A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, or Web spiders, Web robots, or—especially in the FOAF community—Web scutters polled certain sites (including under its pre-release name, Cuill).[30] Website owners were reportedly saying the method was not "scientific in any way" and "actually quite amateurish."[31] Others reported irrelevant images associated with their listing in Cuil's search results.[32]

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ a b c Liedtke, Michael, Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search, Associated Press, 28 July 2008, retrieved 13 Dec 2009
  2. ^ Liedtke, Michael (December 11, 2007). "Ask.com will purge search info in hours". Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne Newspapers). http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071211/BIZ/712110335. Retrieved 2007-12-11.
  3. ^ http://www.cuil.com/info/privacy/
  4. ^ news.bbc.co.uk, Search site aims to rival Google
  5. ^ Crunchbase: Cuil Profile
  6. ^ LEAD411 Launches 'Hottest Silicon Valley's Companies' Awards
  7. ^ http://www.cuil.com/info/faqs/
  8. ^ a b c Gohring, Nancy (July 30, 2008). "What's in a Name? Better Not Ask Cuil". PC World (IDG). http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/149167/whats_in_a_name_better_not_ask_cuil.html. Retrieved 2008-08-03.
  9. ^ Focail.ie - Irish English Dictionary - Coll/Hazel
  10. ^ Dineen, Patrick Foclóir Gaeḋlge agus Béarla Irish Texts Society 1927
  11. ^ Silicon Republic - Irishman launches Cuil but will it scare Google? - "Cuil (previously known as Cuill)"
  12. ^ DoesWhat (August 22, 2008). "Cuil… Internet ceases to expand". DoesWhat.com. http://www.doeswhat.com/2008/08/22/cuil-internet-ceases-to-expand/. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
  13. ^ Arrington, Michael (September 11, 2008). "Cuil's VP Product Bails Out A Month After Launch". washingtonpost.com. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102551.html. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
  14. ^ http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/12/1217_hottest_startups/8.htm
  15. ^ http://www.cuil.com/
  16. ^ http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/cuil.com
  17. ^ Cuil (2010). "Link Cuil with Facebook". http://www.cuil.com/info/help/facebook.php. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
  18. ^ Cuil (2010). "About Us - Cuil". http://www.cuil.com/info/. Retrieved 2010-04-06.
  19. ^ Hema, Software Engineer (May 13, 2009). "Cuil in Multiple Languages". www.cuil.com (Cuil). http://www.cuil.com/info/blog/2009/05/13/cuil-in-multiple-languages. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
  20. ^ Cuil - Preferences
  21. ^ a b c Needleman, Rafe (July 28, 2008). "Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine". CNET news (CNET). http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10000670-2.html. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
  22. ^ Hansell, Saul (July 28, 2008). "No Bull, Cuil Had Problems". New York Times Bits Blog (New York Times). http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/no-bull-cuil-had-problems/. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  23. ^ Dvorak, John C. (July 28, 2008). "The New Cuil Search Engine Sucks". PC Magazine (Ziff Davis). http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2326643,00.asp. Retrieved 2008-08-03.
  24. ^ a b Hamilton, Anita (July 28, 2008). "Why Cuil is No Threat to Google". Time.com (Time Magazine Online). http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1827331,00.html. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
  25. ^ DoesWhat (July 29, 2008). "Cuil… back to Google then". DoesWhat.com. http://www.doeswhat.com/2008/07/29/cuil-back-to-google-then/. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
  26. ^ a b Burdick, Dave (July 28, 2008). "Cuil Review: Really? No Dave Burdicks? This Search Engine Is Stupid". huffingtonpost.com (Huffington Post). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-burdick/cuil-review-really-no-dav_b_115413.html. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
  27. ^ Metz, Cade (July 29, 2008). "Ex-Googlers reinvent web search". www.theregister.co.uk (The Register). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/29/cuil_launch/. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
  28. ^ Sullivan, Danny (July 28, 2008). "Cuil Launches -- Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google?". search engine land blog (Search Engine Land). http://searchengineland.com/080728-000100.php. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
  29. ^ "Cuil Stumbles on Launch, but Beats Google in Key Relevancy Metric". Market Share. Net Applications. 2008-08-01. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?sample=16&qprid=38&qpcustom=Cuil. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
  30. ^ "Cuill is banned on 10,000 sites". TechCrunch. April 8, 2008. http://www.skrenta.com/2008/04/cuill_is_banned_on_10000_sites.html. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  31. ^ Reisinger, Don (September 1, 2008). "Is Cuil killing websites?". techcrunch.com (TechCrunch). http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/is-cuil-killing-websites/. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
  32. ^ "How To Lose Your Cuil 20 Seconds After Launch". TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/29/how-to-lose-your-cuil-20-seconds-after-launch.

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