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  • July 29th, 2008 An ex-Google employee and her husband has taken on the task of creating a good competition for Google by the name cuil

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • An ex-Google employee and her husband has taken on the task of creating a good competition for Google by the name cuil (pronounced cool).

    Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO' 2008

  • From the linked article: "ex-google engineers debut 'cuil' way to search."

    How cool is Cuil? Ann Althouse 2008

  • So cool I did not get "cuil" til you pointed it out.

    How cool is Cuil? Ann Althouse 2008

  • We're using 'cuil' as a unit of measurement, right?

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2009

  • Search engine Cuil, pronounced "cool" (the word 'cuil' is a Gaelic word meaning knowledge), officially launched today.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • As a fine art landscape photographer, I was surprised to "cuil" my name and see a suggestive image of a woman next to website results … I don't photograph people.

    Scobleizer 2008

  • As a fine art landscape photographer, I was surprised to "cuil" my name and see a suggestive image of a woman next to website results … I don't photograph people.

    Scobleizer 2008

  • Search engine Cuil, pronounced "cool" (the word 'cuil' is a Gaelic word meaning knowledge), officially launched today.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Search engine Cuil, pronounced "cool" (the word 'cuil' is a Gaelic word meaning knowledge), officially launched today.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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  • Gaelic for wisdom or knowledge; also the name of a new search engine. Pronounced "cool," according to the trades.

    July 29, 2008

  • Cuil the search engine does not support Boolean/wildcard queries, which means that it's never going to be my default search engine :/ And its name is a bit off-putting, too, because of its similarity to Latvian kuilis, a (domestic) boar.

    July 30, 2008