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> Cuil didn't die because people were "too lazy to switch to something new." It died because among the few who did know what Cuil was, opinions ranged from "dis
by EdiX 14y ago
> Cuil didn't die because people were "too lazy to switch to something new." It died because among the few who did know what Cuil was, opinions ranged from "disappointment" to "laughingstock".
Cuil died the day it was announced. They went live with a great PR fanfare and a corrupted index, everyone marginally interested in it saw it when it was broken, which is how it got its reputation as a laughing stock.
- chc 14y agoLet's not forget the Cpedia pivot, where they turned their search engine into a sort of Dadaist Wikipedia. That was probably an even bigger mistake than launching a broken search engine (and more ambitious, too).