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Cuil, once touted as a 'Google killer,' appears to be dead
Remember Cuil? The search engine startup that claimed it could beat Google launched back in 2008 to a lot of fanfare, but it just didn't have the quality search results to back up its initial promise. Well, Cuil has existed for two years, getting almost no attention after its colossally bad launch, and now it appears to be shutting down. There's no official word yet, but the site is down right now, and TechCrunch reports that former Cuil employees are saying it's gone for good. I couldn't reach anyone at the Cuil offices by phone to get a comment, but if it has failed, it's probably because the name is tough to spell and unintuitive to pronounce (every story about Cuil has to remind you that it's pronounced "cool"), and because it couldn't live up to its hyperbolic claims of outperforming Google.
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Subscribe to commentsSebastian AnthonySep 19th 2010 1:00PM
It's really meant to be pronounced 'cool'? I guess this was the zenith of awfully-named-all-lower-case trading names, then...
GenericSep 19th 2010 5:15PM
I really wanted them to succeed because I liked their interface. It was very beautiful and had facebook integration allowing you to search for friends until facebook killed it with their own search feature.
But the truth is I only wanted them to succeed to force Google to swap that plain and boring set of lines of text that don't guide your eyes the way cuil divides the page with colours and boxes.
R.I.P cuil :'(
furiousSep 19th 2010 7:37PM
never heard of cuil. it looked more like "cull". shouldve called it coo instead.
motangSep 19th 2010 8:17PM
Can't say I will miss it, I used it once when it did launch cause I saw the headlines on the net about it, and wasn't really impressed by it.
DeoWulfSep 20th 2010 12:45AM
I was going to pronounce it "quill".
David LevineSep 20th 2010 8:47AM
I forgot it even existed.
SDCSep 20th 2010 5:06PM
This reminds me...has anybody figured out how the f*** to use Wolfram Alpha yet?
weapon178Sep 22nd 2010 2:44AM
It seems that cuil....
*Takes off sunglasses*
Just wasn't cool enough.....