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Cuil might be based on Webfountain technology, a research project from IBM: How to build a WebFountain: An architecture for very large-scale text analytics Some citations:1. “WebFountain is a platform for very large-scaletext analytics applications. The platform allows uniform access to a wide variety ofsources, scalable system-managed deployment of a variety of document-level“augmenters” and corpus-level [...]

I like cuil, a new interesting kid on the block in the search engine arena.

Interface: proper text summaries and the results include images (how do they select images?)

Ranking: new and smart algorithm which analyses content instead of pagerank based on linking, so the bad link builders will not like cuil…

The algoritm: my first thoughts: [...]