Cuil sounds Cool!
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Posted: Jul 28, 08 2:41pm http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/28/technology/cuil.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes Last Updated: July 28, 2008: 1:50 PM EDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale. Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet. The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday. Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers - Russell Power and Louis Monier - searched for better ways to search. Now, it's boasting time.  Posted: Jul 28, 08 2:43pmA little friendly competition never hurts! Posted: Jul 28, 08 2:47pmThank you for this information. Posted: Jul 28, 08 2:51pmbut it is sure fun to say you "googled" yourself saying you've "cuiled" yourself just doesn't have the same ring to it! Posted: Jul 28, 08 2:59pmbut it is sure fun to say you "googled" yourself saying you've "cuiled" yourself just doesn't have the same ring to it! Roxley, that was one of my first thoughts too but I bet a year form now it will an accepted part of our new vocabulary. When I was in high school if anyone had said check the internet I would have said, "huh"????? 
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Posted: Jul 28, 08 3:15pmRoxley, that was one of my first thoughts too but I bet a year form now it will an accepted part of our new vocabulary. When I was in high school if anyone had said check the internet I would have said, "huh"????? i knows i gonna sound all snooty and puffy but i used a teletype machine to access a computer in 1969 and used TCP/IP while at Boeing in 1986. We were working on a precursor to search and links on pages for engineering drawings. It was all very very cool. ftp and email existed in 1986 but not HTTP/browsers yet. Posted: Jul 28, 08 3:19pmi knows i gonna sound all snooty and puffy but i used a teletype machine to access a computer in 1969 and used TCP/IP while at Boeing in 1986. We were working on a precursor to search and links on pages for engineering drawings. It was all very very cool. ftp and email existed in 1986 but not HTTP/browsers yet. My earliest exposure was through Cray Research, Inc. Cray had its own internal email and intraconnectivity. When I left there in 1989 I was no longer capable of hand-writing a letter and prior to that had been very comfortable doing extensive writing by hand. I bought a V-Tech PC in 1989 with Windows 3.1! How far we have come! Edited: I am being a little facetious saying I was no longer capable of hand-writing a letter but it was uncomfortably close to the truth. I had developed an adversity to writing by hand. | ADVERTISEMENT  |
