Even though I try to approach every startup with an open mind, there are few companies more likely to provoke knee-jerk skepticism than those claiming to compete head-to-head with Google in Web search ...

Google challenger Cuil launched last night in blaze of glory. And it went down in a ball of flames. Immediately after launch, the criticism started to pile on: results were incomplete, weird, and ...

Search engine Cuil launched earlier this evening, claiming a bigger index size (120 billion web pages) than Google or any other search engine. The pedigree of the founders and execs, which includes ...

Seeing as how new search engine Cuil.com is, well, a search engine, its founders might have known that people could easily check online the company’s claim that the word “cuil” means “knowledge” in ...

Rest easy, Google… The much-hyped new search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool”), purports to index more Web pages than any of its rivals. But based on its Monday debut, the new site poses little ...

The less popular search engines always have the best privacy policies, it's a fact. Take Cuil, the recently launched search engine pitching itself as the most comprehensive index of the Web, and their ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Despite its Irish roots and Google links, new search engine Cuil cannot say it is feeling lucky today. Cuil has ...

There's yet another new search engine on the block, but this time, it's being ballyhooed as an actual challenger to Google. Cuil.com (pronounced "cool") made its public launch today and already calls ...

Can any start-up search engine “be the next Google?” Many have wondered this, and today’s launch of Cuil (pronounced “cool”) may provide the best test case since Google itself overtook more ...

Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn’t disclose the size of ...

Cuil, a Menlo Park-based search startup, has launched with an interesting hook: It has indexed 120 billion Web pages. It claims that tally is three times larger than any search engine, but the first ...

A story about the Cuil search engine misstated the role Russell Power, Cuil’s vice president of engineering, had at Google. Power was a staff software engineer. By Elise Ackerman Mercury News When ...