Cuil

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City: Menlo Park

State: California

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Country: United States

Cuil was a stealth search engine startup which claims that it can index web pages significantly faster and cheaper than Google. Cuil has told potential investors that their indexing costs will be 1/10th of Google&s;s, based on new search architectures and relevance methods. In some ways Cuil is the polar opposite of [Powerset](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/powerset), which has huge indexing costs because it does a deep contextual analysis on every sentence on every web page. Powerset&s;s indexing costs, therefore, should be much higher per web page than Google&s;s. Cuil was also founded by highly respected search experts. Husband and wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson were joined by Russell Power. Patterson and Power are ex-[Google](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/google) search experts. Costello was the founder of Xift. Cuil met with venture capitalists, but we&s;re hearing that Costello and Patterson eventually self-funded the company with a $5ish million injection of capital. They now have 10-15 employees and an office in Menlo Park.

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