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It does have some interesting lessons in there of how not to do things. Startups would do well to read and analyze all the countless mistakes cuil made. I thin
by axod 18y ago
It does have some interesting lessons in there of how not to do things. Startups would do well to read and analyze all the countless mistakes cuil made.
I think it's still being written about because it was such an epic failure of mammoth proportions.
They did some things right, they got a ton of buzz, tons of visitors, but they totally messed up their chance. Unlikely they'll be given another one. (Unless they rebrand at least)
- batasrki 18y agoI think that their main problem was lack of availability once the buzz reached its highest pitch. I could understand less-than-impressive search results, since that could be an ongoing thing. However, a search engine crashing the way someone's blog folds under the weight of Digg/Reddit/HN effect is unacceptable in my eyes.