– Cuil (pronounced /ˈkuːl/ “cool” according to the creators) was a search engine
– 120 billion web pages were indexed by Cuil
– Cuil was developed by ex – googlers Anna Patterson and Russell Power. The CEO and co-founder, Tom Costello, has worked for IBM and others.
– The company had raised $33 million from venture capital firms including Greylock
– It went live on July 28, 2008 and officially taken down on Sep 17 2010.
Google was supposed to be a Google – Killer but had to resign from the task early !
Yep Chris !!
It shocked me too.. mm thats how its when some big venture does not make it till the end..
cheers
Josh
Proves that people who don't know what they are doing rapidly disappear. But those some VCs will probably find some other silly thing to waste their money on.
🙂