Yesterday I posted that Cuil, the supposed "Google-killer" search engine that once took pride in not keeping any logs of its users' activities, had dramatically altered its privacy policy, effectively stripping it of the strong privacy-protecting language it originally contained.…
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Cuil’s Famous Privacy Policy No Longer Protects Privacy
Remember Cuil, the search engine launched in 2008 that was supposed to be a Google-killer? Didn't think so. Anyway, one of Cuil's touted competitive advantages was that it didn't track user search queries. Its original privacy policy (dated July 27,…
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Cuil not so Cool
Following up on the experience of others (here, here, and here), I've run some test searches of my own on the hot new Cuil search engine. The results were not cool. I performed three different kinds of searchs: information-seeking, navigational,…
New “Cuil” Search Engines Decides User Logs Aren’t Necessary
Some former Googlers have launched a rival search engine named for the Gaelic word for knolwedge, Cuil. Cuil (pronounced like "cool"), which claims to have an index three times the size as Google and ten times as Microsoft, aims to…
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