July 28 will see a launch of big new search engine, called Cuil. Developed and run by the husband-and-wife team of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson, it’s pitched as bigger, faster, and better than Google’s flagship search engine in pretty much every way. After previewing it, Rafe Needleman disclosed on Webware that Cuil is a very serious effort, and has enough funding to get off the ground and become a player. According to Costello, unlike semantic search engine like PowerSet, Cuil analyzes the content of Web pages to divine their relevance to a search query.
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