Feb 20, 2012 at 3:24pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Googler Killer, Cuil, which launched in June 2008 and went defunct in September 2010, have had their patent applications acquired by Google. Bill Slawski spotted the transfer of ownership of these patent applications this morning. The patents transfer to Google from Cuil include 20090240672, 20090240685, 20090241044, 20090241018, 20090241058, 20090241065 and 20090241066. This is not all that surprising, being that one of the co-founders, Anna Patterson joined Google the same month Cuil went offline. Related Stories: Cuil Goes Offline, Future Not So Cool Anna Patterson, Cuil Found [...]

Anna Patterson, Cuil Founder, Returns To Google

Dec 15, 2010 at 9:56am ET by Barry Schwartz

TechCrunch reports Anna Patterson has updated her LinkedIn profile to say she is now back at Google. Anna left Google to launch a 'Googler killer' named Cuil. Cuil, a new search engine, had a ton of hype around it and had a lot of smart people working there, including Anna. A few months ago Cuil went offline after not being able to raise more funding and has remained offline since. Anna appears to now be a Director of Google Research at Google. Prior, she worked at Google since 2004 as the architect of Google’s large search index, TeraGoogle, that launched in early 2006 and technica [...]

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Cuil Goes Offline, Future Not So Cool

Sep 20, 2010 at 9:16am ET by Barry Schwartz

Thursday night, Cuil, the Google killer, went offline. The first report I've seen about this was Friday afternoon at TechCrunch, it is like no one noticed for several hours. TechCrunch reports Cuil went down after last minute acquisition talks failed. They said "Cuil was in the final stages of an acquisition as of last Wednesday, and everything was in place except the final signatures. Then the deal fell apart for some reason." The day after, Thursday, employees were reportedly told to pack up and then later on in that day the servers went offline. It is believed the service may go [...]

Google, Content Farms & Why This May Be Blekko’s Moment

Jul 26, 2010 at 10:16am ET by Greg Sterling

At the beginning of Google's "Searchology" event in early 2007 original Google employee Craig Silverstein opined, "If Google had started a year or two earlier, it wouldn't have worked." That's because prior to that time (1998) the internet wasn't yet large enough to require Google or enable people to see the value of its approach. As sites and pages multiplied exponentially Google became an increasingly necessary tool. We're all familiar with the story. Now Google controls a majority of search traffic in most countries around the world. It has become a seemingly unstoppable force. The in [...]

Cuil Jumps On The Real-Time Search Bandwagon

Aug 24, 2009 at 2:05pm ET by Matt McGee

Make some space on the real-time search bandwagon for Cuil, which has just added real-time listings to its search results page. As Mashable points out, Cuil seems to be following OneRiot's lead in that its real-time results are more about the links people are sharing online rather than the actual tweets and conversations. The interface is nice with the ability to scroll horizontally through several results, but there's no indication where the results are coming from (is this just a Twitter crawl/API pull?) and nothing to explain what the "Hotness" bar is and how it relates to other r [...]

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