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Victoria Barret, 07.28.08, 1:00 AM ET
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Anna Patterson was one of Google's star engineers until she left in December 2006 to seek out something new. Venture capitalist friends gave her squid proxy server a curious suggestion: talk to your husband.
Unbeknown to Patterson, her husband, Tomàs Costello, had been building a start-up between car pool runs for the couple's three (now there are four) children. Even more surprising, Costello was building a search engine to compete with Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people past time server date time ).
"I thought he was basically a stay-at-home dad," says Patterson, 43.
"I couldn't tell her, because in some ways, I was working against her," outlook server s cn name says Costello, 39, who previously worked at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and then ethan allen server at Stanford University as a research professor. (Both hold doctoral degrees in computer science.)
Weeks later, the two teamed up with the server requires authentication goal of creating a super-efficient Web crawler that would seek out vast parts of the Web that go untouched by the big players, and analyze what those pages are about. The pair has raised $33 million in venture funding from Madrone Capital Partners, Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners.
Their search engine, called Cuil, debuts Monday. That's Irish for wisdom (and is pronounced "cool"). It displays long descriptions of binary news server each search result, alongside images, scattered across the entire page. "We want you to be able to tell if that's really the page you were looking for," says Costello.
Cuil will pull results from 120 billion Web pages, which is, it claims, roughly three times the reach of Google, Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) or Microsoft voip server (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ). Is that isa server course nearly all of forgot windows server password the Web? "We think it's close, but we've learned the Web is larger than we thought," says Costello.
Patterson and Costello's impressive feat is that they've done this with a total of 1,400 eight-CPU computers (1,000 find and data-mine defrag sql server Web pages, the remaining ibm server 400 serve up those pages), while the big search services have warehouses of servers numbering in the many thousands.
Cuil attempts to see ad-aware server reset error relationships between words and to group related pages in a single server. Patterson says this enables quicker, more efficient searching: "While most queries [at competitors] go out to thousands of servers looking for an answer, 90% of our queries go to just one machine."
Patterson dlna server program and Costello believe this yields more insightful results. "We aren't a popularity contest," says Costello, knocking Google's well-known "PageRank" method, which counts not just relevance of a page but the number of other sites linking to it.
Cuil pays scant attention to the links but aims to do a better job with fairy server absolute virtue relevance. "Two pages about bonsai trees might be linked to each other, but that doesn't mean either of them is any good. The sites have to be talking windows home server add ons about the right concepts to rank high mmorpg server files with us," says Patterson.
A big part of ubuntu server setup gutsy manual partition Cuil's selling proposition is privacy. The established, big-name search firms look at which pages people click on, both to judge which are useful pages and, increasingly, to target advertising. Cuil disavows the latter goal.
If the link in the bottom right hand asp upload file to server of the page gets all the traffic, Cuil might bump it up (as would Google), but it doesn't keep tco workgroup server track of any particular user's exchange server redundancy history. "We don't care about what sql server connection strings you've looked at in the past, and whether that might make you attractive to advertisers," says Costello.
Patterson adds that Cuil won't need Google's army of lawyers to answer subpoenas. If a prosecutor wants to know whether a murder suspect was searching for laserjet print server articles about poisons, it can say it doesn't know.
As Cuil's servers began pinging the hinterlands of the Web, it instantly heard back. One full-time staffer is managing the e-mail flows livecd server serial from pleasantly surprised Web site owners (and spammers). "We get a lot of people thrilled that they're getting attention from our servers. They suddenly feel relevance they didn't before," says Costello.
Firms big and small wubdiws c telnet chat server have struggled to russian pedo porn secret server make lineage private server a dent in Google's massive market share. Costello and Patterson are quick to say they didn't build Cuil to be a Google-killer. Instead, they want server pc time issue to spark competition in search that has been lacking. "Yahoo! and Microsoft have tried to beat Google by being Google. It hasn't led to more choice in search," says Costello.
Patterson and Costello have lured two important engineers windows server cd2 download away from Google. Russell Power, a Cuil co-founder, was a lead engineer on Google's largest index, called TeraGoogle. Louis Monier, vice president of products, led Google's shopping infrastructure, and before that, built up eBay's (nasdaq: EBAY - news - how to get dns server codes people ) search technology. He has a Ph.D. wow private server status in math and computer science from Paris Orsay University.
Cuil's founders are quick to point sql server tutorial out that there will be kinks: "Sometimes our sql server service pack results are more useful, sometimes less, and sometimes completely wacky," says Patterson. "This is a launch. It's the beginning, not the end."
To try out Cuil, go windows server backup software to Cuil.com.
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