Former Google Employees Start Experimental Search Engine
An experimental search engine built by a team of former Google search experts!
“Cuill Inc. (pronounced “cool”) is a startup company that is pioneering a new approach to Search. The company was founded by Tom, Anna and Russell.” - Cuill Inc. homepage
“Twiceler is an experimental robot. The user-agent is twiceler.” - Cuil.com’s robot page.
Techcrunch.com ran a story on Cuill.com last September, but I don’t see any other news blogs covering this new search engine that claims to be able to index pages at one-tenth the cost of Google indexing.
Cuill’s search engine development team reads like a who’s who in the world of search expertise, several of which are former Google search experts.
Anna Patterson, President and Founder
Anna was the architect of Google’s large search index, TeraGoogle, that launched in early 2006. While at Google, Anna was the technical lead of one of the two Web ranking groups at Google, in charge of GoogleBase, and the manager for the core piece of Google’s ad-matching technology. She joined Google in 2004 after designing, writing and selling Recall - the largest search engine in existence at the time at 12 billion pages. Anna has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Russell Power, Founder
Russell was technical lead for the serving part of TeraGoogle. While at Google, he spent two years working on Web ranking and on the automatic Spam detection project. Russell attended the University of Washington and is on leave there as a PhD candidate in computer science.Louis Monier, VP of Products
Louis joined Cuill from Google, where he led the design of a faceted search engine. Previously, he led the design of a new search experience at eBay, rebuilding the company’s search engine and serving as the first eBay Fellow and director of its Advanced Technology Lab…
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