Thursday 31 July 2008

AI 25 When will Cuil (one week from launch) become a billion dollar business?


As artificial intelligence is leading to new smarter search engines the market is wide open to new players.

Powerset was snapped up by Microsoft.

Now, Cuil has just been launched by ex Google people. That is a scary thought. Watch out Google!

Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. Smart!

Cuil claim they search more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft. Wow! It has a $33m war chest with more to come as they gain traction.

Cuil feels better than Google.

The market is changing as web 3.0 gains traction with smart new services. Cuil is likely to be snapped up also. The question is by whom? And when? Is it worth $1bn already? If not, when?

The global poker game around new technologies is gaining momentum.

Innovation is being powered by start-ups.