On Joining Cuil

December 19, 2008

As I announced on Twitter, I have recently joined Cuil as Senior UI Developer. While there are many reasons I chose to come on at Cuil in favor of other opportunities, there is one factor that really won me over: the people.

Cuil has a very flat management structure, and as such everyone has to be very good at a variety of things. There are some incredibly talented people here at Cuil, including ex-senior Google, Internet Archive, and IBM employees (our VP of Engineering was the architect of Google’s large search index, TeraGoogle). Not only is everyone smart, but they are all focused on a very exciting goal, and moving toward it in logical and defined steps. We all share a vision, and that isn’t to be a direct competitor to Google right now – ask anyone here, we know we aren’t there yet, but we have some amazing technology that is set to really change things with time.

I strongly believe that Cuil is the evolution of search. This doesn’t just extend to the magazine-style search results presentation we use now, nor the interesting relevancy and multimedia data we’re splicing into search results, but also to the very cool things that are on the road map. I’m in a very good position to direct the next generation of information presentation, I have a ton of ideas, and am very excited about the future.

Technology, people, and ideas – three things that all add up to a very exciting opportunity.

  • http://liako.biz Elias Bizannes

    And here I thought I was going to just see a new theme (which rocks by the way, been looking for a more elegant one like this).

    Awesome awesome awesome on you joining Cuil – that’s massive! I’m trying to head to the States for a month in March, we should catch up.

  • http://www.pantsland.com Brad Kellett

    Thanks mate, I’m really pumped about it too. Should see some of my ideas come to fruition soon. Hit me up when you’re here, we’ll get together or sure.

  • http://lucasrichter.tumblr.com Lucas

    Congrats on the new job! It sounds like a really exciting one. Enjoy!

  • http://blog.rfquerin.org Richard Querin

    Congratulations Brad! I think they’re is a lot of room for improvement and innovation in search. I haven’t checked out cuil in a while, but I’ll definitely be keeping my eye on it now.

    Cheers.