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I really don't understand cuil. I feel really bad criticizing someone's hard work, but this company is not a one man operation; it's a team of smart, experience
by danieldon 16y ago
I really don't understand cuil. I feel really bad criticizing someone's hard work, but this company is not a one man operation; it's a team of smart, experienced people with tens of millions of dollars of venture capital. They must be aware of their reputation and that they are the butt of jokes for exactly the kind of stuff we are now seeing in cpedia. What is the strategy? Do they think they can just ride out having such a bad repuation while they try to perfect the service?
- techiferous 16y ago"it's a team of smart people with tens of millions of dollars of venture capital." This is probably a weakness, not a strength. If cuil were a bootstrapped one-person operation it would be very easy to cut the cord and move on to something else.
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- stcredzero 16y agoAlso, it would only be subject to self-delusion and not the feedback loop of groupthink.
- ahoyhere 16y agoAnd the "us" vs "them" mentality. It's much easier to fall into for smart, sane people when they're surrounded by other people doing the same thing. After all, if it's so nuts, why doesn't Joanna / Bob quit?. Social proof.
- plinkplonk 16y ago"If cuil were a bootstrapped one-person operation it would be very easy to cut the cord and move on to something else." Or actually get it to work,like DuckDuckGo. One man operation. Impressive results. Contrasting DuckDuckGo and Cuil is enlightening in all kinds of ways.
- farnsworth 16y agoI agree. I don't have any brand loyalty to search engines- if Cuil worked better, I'd use it. But I search for 'world war two' and the 4th result is "Scott's World War Two Page", which Chrome warns me could be hosting malware. I like some of Cuil's ideas, but it just doesn't work.