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Ex-Google employees create search rival, Cuil

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 by Nick Bodmer

Cuil, a new search engine created by many former Google employees, recently went live. Cuil (pronounced like "cool") is a search engine that differs from Google in two very important ways. First, page ranking is not determined by popularity, but instead by content analysis.  (Google's algorithm relies on how often other ...