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Cuill - New Stealth Search Engine - Google's Noticed

(pronounced [kool])

pageoneresults

5:29 pm on Sep 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

I'm surprised we missed this one, or did we?

According to John Battelle...

Another rumor circulating is that Google already took a shot at acquiring the company with a very healthy offer, showing that they take this potential threat seriously.

Ex Googlers Using Google Lucre to Make Google Competitor
[battellemedia.com...]

Cuill 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 search experts, and Google must be fuming that their inventions were not added to Google’s intellectual property library. Costello was the founder of Xift.

Cuill: Super Stealth Search Engine; Google Has Definitely Noticed
[techcrunch.com...]

bcolflesh

5:40 pm on Sep 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

That's interesting - they're hiring, too!

[cuill.com...]

bcc1234

5:44 pm on Sep 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

So that's what Twiceler is.
LOL. The most misbehaved bot I've seen not run by scrapers.

Samizdata

6:15 pm on Sep 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

Twiceler ignores robots.txt and walks into spider traps.

Not cool (pronounced "cool").

pageoneresults

6:18 pm on Sep 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

The most misbehaved bot I've seen not run by scrapers.

Apparently that sentiment has been echoed across many communities.

Lord Majestic

7:15 pm on Sep 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

Anna Patterson is the person named on a number of phrase searching/indexing related patents recently - it is not suprising that Google would want to go a long way to get her back into the fold, or at least not have her work elsewhere.

Receptional Andy

7:26 pm on Sep 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

I'm not sure Cuill counts as new in internet terms ;)

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