Friday, August 01, 2008

Bet They Now Wish They Had Given it a Different Name!

This from BusinessWeek's Tech Beat:
    Cuil: Another Google Challenger Launches--to a Cool Reception

    Posted by: Rob Hof on July 28

    Just weeks after the last highly touted Google challenger, Powerset, was snapped up by Microsoft, a new one is launching Sunday night. Cuil (pronounced “cool” and previously sporting an additional “l”), boasts a Web index three times the assumed size of Google’s (though I’m not aware of Google admitting to a particular index size lately), a management team with an impressive pedigree (several people from Google), a different set of algorithms that in part analyze the content of pages, and a radically different presentation of search results.

Read the whole article here.

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