Anna Patterson, who has sold search engine technology to Google, is introducing her own search engine- Cuil, pronounced "cool." Claiming to have an index of over 120 billion Web pages, Patterson says she believes her index covers three times the amount of pages covered by Google. For privacy advocates, there is something to like about Cuil. The engine will not be tracking users' search histories- a practice that has earned the ire of many privacy experts and regular citizens alike.
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