Comments on: Cuil, WTF?

By: Aaron Mentele

Aaron Mentele — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:38:19 +0000

@Nicholas – I wonder if their goal was just to sell (to Microsoft) and their PR firm told everyone their goal was to compete with Google. Whatever the case, launching with garbage results makes them look like asshats. They should have either waited until they figured out the search matches or explained that they knew their results were going to blow for a while.

@Nic – that’s damn funny.

@Corey – I’ll do my best.

By: Corey V.

Corey V. — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:56:07 +0000

Well, if people come to you looking for me, at least do me a favor and say I’m a nice guy. Or that I smell nice.

By: Aaron Mentele

Aaron Mentele — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:50:23 +0000

@Corey – people can’t be trusted to represent themselves. Apparently.

By: Corey V.

Corey V. — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:26:11 +0000

I attempted to Cuil myself (Corey Vilhauer) when this launched. I was met with a blank stare, as of Cuil thought it was above self-cuiling.

I just tried again, reminded by this post. The first two pages were filled with a column I had written for Millions, a book blog. My twitter account was there, but that’s about it. Not a single image looked familiar. Not a one.

It took me six pages before Black Marks on Wood Pulp showed up. My linked in was nowhere.

Of course, there was one thing you’ll be happy about, Aa. For some reason, YOUR twitter page was ranked higher than BMOWP.

By: Aaron Mentele

Aaron Mentele — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:25:14 +0000

wow.

By: Deane

Deane — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:57:56 +0000

The best thing ever: Cuil cannot find itself. http://www.cuil.com/search?q=cuil The fail is strong with this one.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:31:28 +0000

The image feature is killing this launch. Must shut if off. And quick.

By: nic

nic — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:45:46 +0000

if it's pronounced anything like the first part of my last name, WTF for reelz.

By: Deane

Deane — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:49:46 +0000

I was crazy unimpressed with this compared with all the attention it was getting. Their launch was very, very bad — I heard nothing but bad things about it all day.

Epic fail. Perhaps fatal. Everything I heard yesterday is going to be tough to recover from.

By: Nicholas Schlueter

Nicholas Schlueter — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:17:26 +0000

I still firmly believe in the launch early mantra. Cuil is in a tough place. Anybody who’s goal is to compete with google knows they have a long road ahead. I, like you, am unimpressed. But I think competition will be good, provided the results get better.

At least they are getting feedback :)