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Also known as cuil.com

Cuil ( ) was a search engine that organized web pages by content and displayed relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. Cuil said it had a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. It went live on July 28, 2008. Cuil's servers were shut down on September 17, 2010, with later confirmations the service had ended.

Key facts

Website.caption
The Cuil homepage
Website.name
Cuil
Website.logo
Cuil logo.png
Website.screenshot
250px|border|Cuil homepage
Website.url
www.cuil.com (archived through Internet Archive)
Website.type
Search engine
Website.language
Multilingual
Website.owner
Cuil, Inc.
Website.launch_date
July 28, 2008
Website.current_status
Down (September 17, 2010)

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Wikidata facts

Headquarters
Menlo Park
Official website
www.cuil.com
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inception
2006-01-01
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2010-09-17
product or material produced
search engine
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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Name
  • History
  • Shutdown
  • Features
  • Criticism
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Cuil ( ) was a search engine that organized web pages by content and displayed relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. Cuil said it had a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. It went live on July 28, 2008. Cuil's servers were shut down on September 17, 2010, with later confirmations the service had ended.

Cuil was managed and developed largely by former employees of Google, Anna Patterson and Russell Power. The CEO, co-founder, and Patterson's husband, Tom Costello, had worked for IBM and others. Cuil's privacy policy, unlike that of other search engines, said it did not store users' search activity or IP addresses.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brenda Vasquez” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.