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Following our own advice is hard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil

• iwwr 16y ago
  Wow, the same Anna Patterson. I don't understand how Cuil became such a disaster. Even early Google seemed alright.
  • jseliger 16y ago
    I don't either, and I'd love to know who does and whether they've written about it.
  • p01nd3xt3r 16y ago
    I tink that Cuil became a disaster because Gogle existed. When google came out it was easily 10x better than what was currently on the market. The same cant be same for cuil.
  • tsktsk 16y ago
    early Google wasn't up against the level of SEO spam and nonsense that exists today.
• ot 16y ago
  From another article in the home page today (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/24/ex.google.employees/ http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/24/ex.google.employe...): But abandoning Google hasn't always proved to be a wise or permanent move. Anna Patterson left the company in 2007 to start a rival search engine called Cuil. When that tanked, she returned to Google in September.
  • puredemo 16y ago
    ... I can't believe they hired her back.
    • korussian 16y ago
      Why wouldn't they? She proved she's awesome at difficult stuff. Ultimate failure didn't unprove that.