Any site administrator that has noticed the following in their logs is well aware that Cuill has already begun indexing the web at a feverish pace.
Mozilla/5.0 (Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/robot.html)
Pronounced ‘Cool’, this Menlo Park (CA) stealth startup is claiming that it can crawl the web at 1/10th the cost of Google! These claims do not seem to be unfounded as the company itself is founded by two former terraGoogle employees and a Stanford PhD. Not much else is known about the company, hence the ’stealth’ mode, but rumors have circulated that Google has already approached them with a buyout offer. Is Google afraid of Cuill’s ability to steal market share or just their ability to steal more Google employees?
For anyone looking to work for this pre-IPO, venture funded startup, they are hiring…