July 28, 2008. 3 or 4 Google’s former employees claimed to release the new search engine - Cuil, pronounced as “cool”.

21,617,892,992 web pages - that’s the number of pages that Cuil, a new search engine claims to index. It’s a lot. More than 120 billion pages, wow!

Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

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Cuil was founded by Tom Costello (CEO), Anna Patterson (VP of Engineering) and Russell Power (Co-founder). They managed to raise $33M in funds for the project from Madrone Capital Partners, Greylock Partners and Tugboat Ventures.

Since the developing stage the company dropped out from one “l” in the name, changing from “Cuill” to “Cuil”, pronounced as “cool”.

Cuil- the powerful search engine

2 ex-Google employees, Patterson and Power, made a breakthrough and claim to find a way to collect and store web data faster and much more cost-effective than Google, which is speculated to spend over 1 billion dollars to maintain their search engine infrastructure per year. That’s one of the main reasons their database is so huge (storing one page is cheaper than at Google meaning they can store more pages at the same cost as Google) and the way to convince their sponsors to give their money to the Cuil company.

在网络世界中，谷歌无疑是搜索引擎网站的巨头。但几位来头不小的谷歌“叛将”却在7月28日推出新搜索引擎Cuil（发音与“cool”相同）来挑战旧主。据Cuil声称，他们可以搜到1200亿个页面，大约是谷歌的3倍，绝对是网络搜索的利器。不过，有分析则称，虽然Cuil风头很盛，但要马上威胁到谷歌的地位仍不现实。（网站地址：www.cuil.com）

　据悉，Cuil由Googlebase前首席技术官安娜·帕特森与她的丈夫科斯泰罗联手创办，他们的两位亲密助手拉塞尔·帕威尔和路易斯·蒙尼尔同样也曾是谷歌的资深员工。其中，帕特森来头最大，她在此前曾一手建立起功能强劲的搜索引擎Recall，并在2004年被谷歌连人带网站高价收购。2006 年，更喜欢独自高飞的帕特森辞职，并开始创建Cuil。而协助IBM构建新型搜索引擎WebFountain的丈夫科斯泰罗也成为她最有力的帮手。