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Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:30:03 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn’t disclose the size of their index, although they claim to know about a trillion unique web pages). They’ve also dropped one of the “l’s” from […]

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Stealth Search Engine Blekko Gets Money From Marc Andreessen, SoftTech

Wed, 14 May 2008 20:30:03 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
2008 is the year of the search engine startup. Hot on the heels of Powerset’s partial launch earlier this week, stealth search engine Blekko (no logo, no website, just this) raised a second round of financing.
The company raised $3 million in equity at a $23 million post-money valuation. All previous investors participated, and new investors […]

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Cuill Secures $25M More For Next Generation Search

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:30:03 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Cuill, a stealth search engine company we first covered in September, has raised $25M in a Series B round led by Madrone Capital Partners and joined by Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners.
Not a whole lot is known about Cuill except that it apparently can index the web at 1/10th the cost of Google. The startup […]

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Powerset Will Launch In Coming Weeks

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:30:03 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
San Francisco based Powerset will be publicly launching a long-awaited beta version of the service in the coming weeks, the company told me yesterday. They are working on a new kind of search engine that will understand natural language searches and compete with keyword matching engines that dominate search today.
An early version of the […]

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The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:30:04 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career - taking on Google. In search.
Skrenta left Topix last June. He started his new company, Blekko, almost immediately, along with five others from the […]

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Greylock Partners Invests In Stealth Search Engine Cuill

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:30:03 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
We got (at least) one thing wrong when we wrote about super-stealth search startup Cuill last week. We said we believed the company self funded after searching for venture capital. But we now have it from two solid sources that they actually raised a $4 million Series A round from Greylock Partners, with partner David […]

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Cuill: Super Stealth Search Engine; Google Has Definitely Noticed

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:30:02 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
The murmurs about new stealth search engine Cuill (pronounced “cool”), which were barely a whisper earlier this year, are gaining strength and are starting to reverberate through Silicon Valley gatherings. Expect Powerset-like hype to begin forming around Cuill in the next few months. The company just recently put up a landing page with very basic […]

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