Cuil, the Cool Search Engine… Oops

Jul

28th

Posted in Humor, Technology by Douglas Karr at 1:32 pm

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I was trying out Cuil today, the new search engine, and I was going to add it to my list of search engines available in Firefox. However, they didn’t have a pre-made add-on ready so I was going to contact them and advise it.

That’s when it happened… the Cuil couldn’t find it’s own Contact Page. Oh, the terrible irony.

On a side note, the results on Cuil are very old and some of the pictures associated with the articles don’t even appear to have come from my blog. The output of the search engine is pretty cuil, though.

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Mark Lindsey

I've been playing with Cuil all day and it's interesting to see how my clients' recent news coverage appears. For example, 'mEgo's Sept. 2007 mention on AllThingsD shows up at the top of Cuil, whereas Google's general web search shows our most recent news item, such as the June 2008 Mashable review.

People tend to be very eager for publicity, and Cuil's Google-ish DNA made it a media darling overnight. As with any PR surge, you're going to have Twitter-like failures that swamp your service with negative reviews if you don't have the bandwidth in place to support your traffic levels.

This is a critical component of web "launches," and traffic expectations are something I see very few PR pros speaking about with their clients.

Clark

I was fooling with Cuil this morning as well. I think that they jumped the gun a bit on their announcement. It doesn't seem to be completely up and running and Cuil doesn't know my blog exists. (how insulting!)