<s>
Cuil	O
(	O
)	O
was	O
a	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
that	O
organized	O
web	O
pages	O
by	O
content	O
and	O
displayed	O
relatively	O
long	O
entries	O
along	O
with	O
thumbnail	O
pictures	O
for	O
many	O
results	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cuil	O
said	O
it	O
had	O
a	O
larger	O
index	O
than	O
any	O
other	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
,	O
with	O
about	O
120	O
billion	O
web	O
pages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cuil	O
was	O
managed	O
and	O
developed	O
largely	O
by	O
former	O
employees	O
of	O
Google	B-Application
,	O
Anna	O
Patterson	O
and	O
Russell	O
Power	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
CEO	B-Application
and	O
co-founder	O
,	O
Tom	O
Costello	O
,	O
has	O
worked	O
for	O
IBM	O
and	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cuil	O
's	O
privacy	O
policy	O
,	O
unlike	O
that	O
of	O
other	O
search	B-Application
engines	I-Application
,	O
said	O
it	O
did	O
not	O
store	O
users	O
 '	O
search	O
activity	O
or	O
IP	B-Protocol
addresses	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
About	O
one	O
month	O
after	O
launch	O
,	O
Cuil	O
's	O
product	O
VP	O
and	O
search	O
technologist	O
,	O
Louis	O
Monier	O
,	O
quit	O
the	O
company	O
citing	O
disagreements	O
with	O
the	O
CEO	B-Application
,	O
Tom	O
Costello	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Their	O
patents	O
were	O
sold	O
to	O
Google	B-Application
and	O
Anna	O
Patterson	O
returned	O
to	O
Google	B-Application
to	O
work	O
for	O
its	O
Search	B-Application
Engine	I-Application
department	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
user	O
could	O
log	O
into	O
their	O
Facebook	B-Application
account	O
via	O
Cuil	O
,	O
which	O
would	O
then	O
search	O
friend	O
updates	O
for	O
topics	O
,	O
with	O
search	O
links	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Instead	O
of	O
displaying	O
search	B-Application
results	I-Application
,	O
Cuil	O
would	O
show	O
Cpedia	O
articles	O
matching	O
the	O
searched	O
terms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Concerns	O
were	O
expressed	O
about	O
the	O
website	O
's	O
slow	O
response	O
times	O
,	O
irrelevant	O
or	O
wrong	O
search	O
resultsxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx1	O
and	O
in	O
at	O
least	O
one	O
case	O
,	O
irrelevant	O
pornographic	O
images	O
displayed	O
alongside	O
search	B-Application
results	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Danny	O
Sullivan	O
of	O
Search	B-Application
Engine	I-Application
Watch	O
questioned	O
the	O
validity	O
of	O
Cuil	O
's	O
claim	O
that	O
it	O
had	O
the	O
world	O
's	O
largest	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
index	O
and	O
criticized	O
it	O
for	O
focusing	O
on	O
size	O
rather	O
than	O
relevance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
despite	O
reported	O
problems	O
with	O
search	B-Application
results	I-Application
,	O
Net	O
Applications	O
reported	O
that	O
for	O
the	O
last	O
three	O
days	O
of	O
July	O
2008	O
,	O
Cuil	O
beat	O
Google	B-Application
and	O
Yahoo	O
in	O
the	O
amount	O
of	O
time	O
spent	O
on	O
a	O
site	O
after	O
referral	O
from	O
a	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
an	O
interview	O
with	O
a	O
Cuil	O
representative	O
,	O
while	O
other	O
Web	O
2.0	O
launches	O
using	O
massively	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
processing	I-Operating_System
might	O
fail	O
with	O
a	O
slow	O
down	O
or	O
crash	O
,	O
Cuil	O
's	O
architecture	O
was	O
responding	O
with	O
incomplete	O
,	O
"	O
less-than-relevant	O
results	O
that	O
then	O
appear	O
at	O
the	O
top	O
of	O
users	O
 '	O
pages.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Cuil	O
's	O
VP	O
of	O
communications	O
Vince	O
Sollitto	O
said	O
the	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
was	O
experiencing	O
heavy	O
first-day	O
overloads	O
and	O
they	O
were	O
"	O
busy	O
putting	O
out	O
fires.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
the	O
initial	O
critical	O
press	O
coverage	O
,	O
Cuil	O
was	O
alleged	O
to	O
have	O
caused	O
issues	O
for	O
some	O
websites	O
,	O
owing	O
to	O
how	O
the	O
Cuil	O
indexing	B-Application
robot	I-Application
polled	O
certain	O
sites	O
(	O
including	O
under	O
its	O
pre-release	O
name	O
,	O
Cuill	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
website	O
owners	O
reported	O
that	O
the	O
Twiceler	B-Protocol
crawler	O
repeatedly	O
hit	O
their	O
site	O
with	O
randomly	O
generated	O
URLs	O
in	O
an	O
attempt	O
to	O
find	O
pages	O
inaccessible	O
by	O
links	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Others	O
reported	O
irrelevant	O
images	O
associated	O
with	O
their	O
listing	O
in	O
Cuil	O
's	O
search	B-Application
results	I-Application
.	O
</s>
