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 Send to email | Google-Wannabe Cuil: Worst. Launch. Ever. in GOOG |  By Silicon
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 Hand it to Cuil's PR machine: The company did a great job getting the word out about the Internet's latest would-be "Google Killer." As the Huffington Post notes, Cuil dominated Google Trends' listings of today's searches.
And we wanted to like Cuil's story: In recent weeks Google (GOOG) has been gunning for everyone from Wikipedia to Second Life. We liked the idea of a newer, hungrier search engine founded by ex-Google employees that would bring some competition back into a monopolizing search market.
If only Cuil's product worked as well as it its marketing. So what's un-cool about Cuil?
1. The service was down intermittently throughout its launch day
We heard the hype that Cuil indexed far more webpages than Google, but for lots of users their first impression of the new service was either this at cuil.com's start page:
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or this for search results:
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2. Assuming Cuil worked at all, the search results were widely reported as inaccurate
What's the first thing people check in a new, more-powerful Internet search? Their own name, of course. The SAI staff ran our own names through Cuil's search. It hadn't heard of some of us, while for others it returned our bylines next to pictures of... other people.
SAI's commenters noted that searches for terms like "penguins" or "failure" returned zero results.
3. The name "Cuil": We can't pronounce it, we can't spell it, and we don't know how to use it in a sentence
Are we supposed to pronounce "Cuil" like "cool," or the cutesey AOL-turned-MySpace-speak "kewl"? We're already used to "googling it." Are we supposed to "cuil it" instead? We've seen commenters already misspell Cuil in writing about it, a serious problem when trying to bring people to a site. Especially if you don't own common misspellings of your own domain: As CrunchGear notes, culi.com leads to an Italian porn outfit.
Earlier: Would-Be Google-Killer Cuil Stumbles Out Of The Gate; Long-Term Looks Grim, Too
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| Spammers, Cuil, and the rescue from planet Google | | Out-Googling Google is not an option
Analysis Plenty of digital ink has been needlessly spilt this week over the launch of the suicidally-monikered new search engine Cuil.com. But the only threat to Google is itself and, in a roundabout way, the legion of spammers and “search engine optimisation” (SEO) consultants that buttress its dominance.
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| Cuil Search Engine Comes Out of the Gate Stumbling |  According to cuil.com’s homepage at the time this article was written, the Cuil search engine indexes an astounding 121,617,892,992 web pages. The question is how they are indexed. Backed by big brains and bigger bucks, Cuil (pronounced “cool”) launched last night and was hardly welcomed with the parades and fanfare it was surely hoping for. [...]
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| Google-avhoppare startar ny sökmotor | | Anna Patterson, tidigare på Google, har nu öppnat portarna till en sprillans ny sökmotor. Cuil stoltserar med ett index av 120 miljarder sidor och ett nytt sätt att presentera sökträffarna. Men premiärdagen inleds med en krasch. [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Jul-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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