Ex-Google Spinoff: Cuil

Google has become a breading ground for future tech execs and entreprenuers.  In part due to their policy of allowing every emoployee 20% of their workweek to a personal project.  These personal projects have been the starting ground for many of the things from Google Labs, including Gmail.  Some of these projects even become their own companies.  The newest spinoff from a former Google employee is Cuil.com (pronounced "cool"), a new search engine that claims to index 3 times as many websites as Google.  Cuil was started by Anna Patterson, a person who definately knows a things of two about search engine design, her first search engine was bought by Google in order to improve their own technology.  Cuil is still in its beginning stages of development, but with a 33 million dollar backing and a few other Google engineers working there, this search engine could create an intesting buzz in an already over crowded, but very profitable, search engine market.

via physorg.com