Cuill has Irish roots
by Mike Butcher
on April 17, 2008

It turns out that Cuill, a stealth search engine company which just raised $25 million in a Series B round (taking its pot to an estimated $38 million), was founded by Tom Costello from Louth on Ireland’s east coast (says PaidContentUK). He started the company with his wife Anna Patterson, ex of Google. The company is based in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley. Cuill claims to be able to index the web at 1/10th the cost of Google, which was rumoured to be looking to acquire the startup even before it launched, understandably. It’s quite clear however that Cuill won’t be selling to Google and is in this for the long haul. It’s going to be fascinating to watch.

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  • http://jaja Esi

    It doesnt matter whether you are able to index the web cheaper than Google , success depends on users switching over to you. In order to switch over your results needs to be of better quality and at atleast the same speed as Google.

    We have had Gigablast available for over 5 years and their results are good, they have a good index and they use only a fraction of the server capacity Google or any other search tool does . That innovative approach to reduction in server needs , Gigablast requires 1/500th of the servers Goog or Yahoo needs to be able to do the same index yet Gigablast isn’t that well known.

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