Cuil made the headlines in all the right ways: written mostly by a rare woman in technology, created by former Google staffers, claims to fix the problems that Google has and index more sites. Of the above, what stuck with most experienced observers was the claim of a better type of search. Cuil claimed to analyze page content, not popularity measured by number of inbound links as Google does, and that appeals to all of us who have laughed out loud at the results returned by Google.

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