Black is the new Google? Cuil.com

This week saw the launch of search engine Cuil, pronounced [KOOL]. Founder and President of Cuil is Anna Patterson, who is on of the list of ex-Google employees, who sold her company a couple of years ago to Google and is now having a new business life after Google.

The company is a search engine that wants to solve the problem that it is hard to find what you need, because the internet gets bigger and disorganized. It searches many more pages than Google and Microsoft, namely 121,617,892,992 web pages, and results are based on content and not on popularity. The pay-off is: ‘Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil.’ (Co-founder Tom Costello is Irish)

The startup has significant financing from Venture Capital, $33 million dollars (€21 million).

The design of the homepage is mainly black not much more than a logo, but the result page is magazine-style.

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July 29, 2008 | Filed Under capital, companies, female internet heroes, news 

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