A new technology company, led by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, has launched a new search offering, www.Cuil.com.

Published: 29 Jul 2008

A new technology company, led by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, has launched a new search offering, www.Cuil.com.

Pronounced "Cool", the offering, according to the company, combines the biggest web index with content-based relevance methods, results organised by ideas, and complete user privacy.

The company's next generation approach to search is the result of proprietary breakthroughs in search architecture and ranking algorithms.

"Cuil (www.Cuil.com) has indexed 120 billion web pages, three times more than any other search engine," stated the company.

"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."

Features are as follows:

· Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages, 3x more than any other search engine.

· Organised results—Cuil's magazine-style layout separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category.

· Different results—Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity.

· Complete privacy protection—Cuil does not keep any personally identifiable information on users or their search histories.

Cuil's technology was developed by a team, which already has substantial experience in search. Cuil's employees have extensive experience in search, having worked at Google, IBM, eBay, AltaVista, Stanford University, the Internet Archive and other technology companies and research centers.

Costello researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM; Patterson has been associated with Google, where she was the architect of the company's large search index and led a web page ranking team.

Together with Russell Power, Anna's former colleague from Google, Cuil was founded. Cuil is located in Menlo Park, California and has received series A funding from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners, and series B funding from Madrone Capital Partners.