New super search engine 'cuil' created by ex-googleites

[Gawan]

I tried today and cuil.com is no longer available.
The DNS do not return an address for the domain.

Yes, they closed -cuil- somewhere in September 2010, according to wikipedia.

 

[sitting]

This alternative search engine may or may not be a solution to the privacy issue. I've tried it but I do not have the technical knowledge to verify what they claimed they do. The site is:

http://startpage.com/

Below is a 30 minute interview with one of their spokesperson describing their methods.

http://itsrainmakingtime.com/2010/alexvaneesteren/

 

[sitting]

And here's a bit more on what those wonderful folks at Google are up to.

http://itsrainmakingtime.com/2011/scottcleland/

I knew what made Google a financial powerhouse was their Adwords. What I didn't know was they swiped that idea from somebody else.

 

[Psalehesost]

I tried today and cuil.com is no longer available.
The DNS do not return an address for the domain.

Shutdown

PC Magazine reported that on the morning of September 17, 2010 "employees were told about Cuil's demise [...] and the servers were taken offline five hours later."[15] Laid-off employees were told they would not be paid. The shutdown reportedly came after an acquisition agreement fell through earlier in the week.[16]

 

[D69]

also :

http://www.ixquick.nl/eng/
http://blekko.com/

 

[Cyre2067]

Odd, Cuil.pt still works. I wonder if its a derivative of the old version... I did a search for psychopaths and the article on Cass came up as #2.

 

[Psalehesost]

Odd, Cuil.pt still works. I wonder if its a derivative of the old version... I did a search for psychopaths and the article on Cass came up as #2.

If you look on the results page, you see the logo for "Google custom search". So (also doesn't have the logo Cuil did) seems something altogether different - a Google wrapper.