Cuil V. Google
BATTLE OF THE SEARCH ENGINES
FITSNews – July 28, 2008 – Internet search engine giant Google is facing a stiff challenge from one of its former employees – who has teamed up with her husband to launch Cuil (pronounced “Cool”), a rival search engine that is playing off consumer concerns over Google’s privacy.
From PC World:
The company, which shaved an ‘L’ off its name to become Cuil, said it has indexed 120 billion Web pages and can provide results organized by ideas with complete privacy for users.
Google on Friday said it had discovered 1 trillion unique Web pages on the Internet, but did not give an updated number on how many of those pages it has indexed.
Cuil said its search engine goes beyond traditional approaches by analyzing the context of each page and the concepts behind each query so it can provide better rankings by content rather than popularity. Cuil then organizes similar results into groups and sorts them by category. It also offers tabs to clarify subjects, as well as suggestions on how to refine searches.
Wait, PC World ? We’re quoting PC World ?
Anyway, a trillion web pages ain’t nothin’. We’ve do a trillion and one articles every day before lunch around here. Plus we have like eleventy kabillion dollars, and all anybody wants to know is “how you gonna spend that, Sic?”
Well, our bud Earl in the Lowcountry has a pretty good idea …
Comments
By reggie on July 28th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
1st, no one except for a reprised starbucks or wallmart will ever de-throne google.
2nd, will, ur gonna spot me on that cash right?
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