Cuill update · 20 September 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
I already wrote about Cuill, and most of my then thoughts look to be true.
Interesting is that people are only writing about it now, when Techcrunch released an article, altought it has been mentioned 7 (!) months before in Venturebeat.
Rumor is that Cuill works at 1/10th cost of Google, when speaking about indexing. Venturebeat looks to be the first to start this rumor:
We’re told they claim they can crawl the Web at a tenth of the cost Google can.
(And greetings to Schweizweit for linking.)
Cuill, the next Google? · 3 August 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
While browsing the access logs, an unfamiliar entry made me to search.
This entry was: Mozilla/5.0 (Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/robot.html)
It looks like a friendly start up, “Yup. We’re working on it.” is the first to see on the site, reading further reveals this: Our offices are located on a quiet street in Menlo Park, CA. Menlo Park? The same place where Google opened.
The about page tells the whole story, two of the three founders worked for Google. What are they going to do? And what is Google going to do? Or is this going to be an in-house rival?
Well, the last unusual crawler who visited us back in 2005 is still nowhere: Topicblogs is not yet launched.