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Cuil (Pronounced “Cool”) Search Engine is Anything But.

On Monday, July 28, 2008, a new search engine known as Cuil (pronounced "cool") went online amidst a flurry of press coverage.  The expecations were understandably high.  Cuil is led by CEO Tom Costello, who has formerly developed search engines for Stanford and IBM.  Also on the team are his wife Anna Paterson (a former employee of internet giant Google), and two other former Google employees, Russel Power and Louis Monier.  Armed with the technical experience gained at Google and $33 million in venture capital, the Cuil team set the lofty goal of attempting to overthrow Google as the most popular search engine in the world.

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