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Agreed. But I sure wish I had their marketing team working for me - 5 million views the first month for a piece of crap like that is no small achievement.
by villageidiot 18y ago
Agreed. But I sure wish I had their marketing team working for me - 5 million views the first month for a piece of crap like that is no small achievement.
- jonknee 18y agoToo bad they weren't working for you because I think Cuil would be better off if no one had heard of them yet. Five million people now know they are really shitty. They have to work extra hard to get those people back. It's like having a store's grand opening event with empty shelves.
- villageidiot 18y agoYes, they blew a huge opportunity - they would have benefited from waiting. But, assuming they haven't burned through their $33 million nest egg, if they spend wisely they could bring their numbers up and at the same time work on improving their algorithms. They still potentially have a huge cushion. The judgement they have displayed until now does not bode well for a comeback however.
- bbgm 18y agoOne could just as easily argue that they are a victim of poor marketing. You can hype something up to a degree that you are setting yourself up for failure. Good marketing in the end is about setting expectations. The ones their marketing campaign set up would have been difficult to live up to under the best of circumstances.
- villageidiot 18y agoGood point.