Cuil? Not cool.
Published: July 31st, 2008If you haven’t heard about it, well, you’re probably better off. Cuil is just another overhyped startup.
Oh The Fail
I’m sorry, but I’ve never seen a bigger hype fail than Cuil, and that’s saying a lot from the things I’ve seen.
All Aboard The Hate-Train
I may be late on the hate-train, but I came to a realization today: Cuil is nothing more than $30 million dollars in wasted funding on an “incredibly accurate” search-engine that revolutionizes *drum roll*, images next to search results.
Wait, what? Yeah, you heard me, there’s nothing unique about Cuil other than the fact of how they present images next to everything you search for.
“But, Daniel” you say… and I cut you off with “No, the search results algorithm is lame. Compare it to Google or Yahoo and you’ll see it is actually worse.”
“Fine, Daniel, you’re right”. Thank you.
It seems like $30 mil was spent on a interesting, but not relevant design, and a “super algorithm” that doesn’t supersede Google or Yahoo by any means. Of course, this is from my opinion, but hey, I am the end-user after all, aren’t I?
Time to Place Bets
I’ll give Cuil one year before heading off to the scrapper, and that’s being generous in yet again, my opinion.
Those ex-Google engineers should have stayed at Google.
p.s My site seems broken in Safari now all of the sudden, is this the same for everyone else? I have not touched my templates in forever… argh…
Looks fine in Firefox 3 and Safari 3.1.2. Here’s my opinion of cuil: http://tinyurl.com/5ataoc
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