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"... There was nothing wrong with their offering ..." except it didn't work ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2710119638/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bo
by bootload 15y ago
"... There was nothing wrong with their offering ..."
except it didn't work ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2710119638/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2710119638/ a quick search for common words I knew of revealed little ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/tags/cuil/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/tags/cuil/ and the HN verdict at the time ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=258737 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=258737
- untog 15y ago"Offering" was probably the wrong word. What I meant was that there was nothing wrong with what they were trying to do, but that they launched too soon, and not working is part of that rather than an intrinsic flaw in their mission.
- bootload 15y ago"... there was nothing wrong with what they were trying to do ..." you're right, as an earlier post suggests it was half-baked & released much too early. How much of the web surface has google indexed compared to what is there?
- EdiX 15y agoOnce someone who worked at cuil told me their index got corrupted the day before launch was scheduled.