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The name probably caused them more trouble than it should have. It's the same criticism being thrown at Bing (the idea that Google is a verb now, and you need
by makecheck 17y ago
The name probably caused them more trouble than it should have. It's the same criticism being thrown at Bing (the idea that Google is a verb now, and you need a name that works well for that).
I can't just tell my friends "hey, try out Cuil", I have to spend a few seconds explaining how to spell it. That's no way to get the word out.
The technology is good, the site is very fast and relevant. But there's a lot in a name.
- sp332 17y agoPeople forget that Google had the same problem. Before Google, "google" was spelled "googol".
- jacquesm 17y agoIt still is, google is the misspelling. As for CUIL, their crawler was such a nuisance at some point that I blocked their complete network. I doubt I'm alone in that. And if those 'twiceler' guys don't start playing nice I'll do the same to them.
- andrewljohnson 17y agoPretty sure twiceler is Cuil....
- jacquesm 17y agoAh! thanks. That clinches it then. One more agent for the ban list. Apropos, I think that plenty of bad guys are masquerading as twiceler as well. Mozilla/5.0 (Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuil.com/twiceler/robot.html http://www.cuil.com/twiceler/robot.html When 'CUIL' first came out their crawler was all over my servers, sometimes to the point of making them inaccessible for users, I remember having a devil of a time getting rid of them because they came from lots of different IP blocks. Apparently their bot is called twiceler, maybe they should name it 'CuilBot' or something to that effect.
- whughes 17y agoJudging by your response, maybe they shouldn't name it Cuilbot. I wonder if their overzealous bots and subsequent blocking are reasons why they launched with such terrible results. I heard several reasons for that catastrophic failure: * Overstressed subject-specific servers failed, leading to porn on hamburger searches and that kind of thing * Crashing, random result variations due to overload * Excessive media hype exacerbated the load issues Another one to add to the list?
- eli 17y agomod_security makes easy work of these sorts of rules
- alaskamiller 17y agoTwiceler is Cuil's UA.
- tokenadult 17y agoYes, as jacquesm points out, Google actually gains from a default spelling of how the word sounds. But Cuil does not.