Cuil Becomes New Search Engine To Take On Google

mdvaldosta · 07-28-2008, 03:00 PM

Google is going to be getting some serious competition from people they used to employ. Former workers of Google have left the company to launch their own search engine - which they believe will become more popular and useful then Google’s search site. The new search engine is called Cuil - which is Gaelic for hazel [...]

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NicAuf · 07-28-2008, 07:42 PM

It will fail.

Rusteh · 07-29-2008, 01:54 PM

doubt it...there are alot of competitors in the search engine business and with Cuil's "advertisement" of the 7 or so former google engineers and the fact that they claim to have a better engine with no disputes thus far...

it's bound to get bought out by a bigger company like AOL or somebody just to try and get back into the headlines and make a push for a better product. Similiar to what Microsoft was doing by attempting to purchase Yahoo awhile back and then with their recent purchase of a different upstart search engine.

So by itself, it's very possible Cuil will fail. But if somebody makes a bid for them, there could be a lot of money changing hands for something that powerful if the advertisements are true.

07-28-2008, 03:00 PM	#1
mdvaldosta Maintenance Man Senior Staff Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,083 Tokenz: 4,231	Cuil Becomes New Search Engine To Take On Google Google is going to be getting some serious competition from people they used to employ. Former workers of Google have left the company to launch their own search engine - which they believe will become more popular and useful then Google’s search site. The new search engine is called Cuil - which is Gaelic for hazel [...] Read more at AfterTek.

07-28-2008, 07:42 PM	#2
NicAuf Shire Dweller Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Hamel,Illinois Posts: 3,171 Tokenz: 11	Re: Cuil Becomes New Search Engine To Take On Google It will fail.

07-29-2008, 01:54 PM	#3
Rusteh V.I.P User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2,894 Tokenz: 1,146	Re: Cuil Becomes New Search Engine To Take On Google doubt it...there are alot of competitors in the search engine business and with Cuil's "advertisement" of the 7 or so former google engineers and the fact that they claim to have a better engine with no disputes thus far... it's bound to get bought out by a bigger company like AOL or somebody just to try and get back into the headlines and make a push for a better product. Similiar to what Microsoft was doing by attempting to purchase Yahoo awhile back and then with their recent purchase of a different upstart search engine. So by itself, it's very possible Cuil will fail. But if somebody makes a bid for them, there could be a lot of money changing hands for something that powerful if the advertisements are true.

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