Cuil Goes Down for Good
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Cuil Goes Down for Good
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#2I'm sorry to say it but they never stood a chance, i'm not sure if a company will ever be able to take on Google in search directly.
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#3I'm sorry to say it but they never stood a chance, i'm not sure if a company will ever be able to take on Google in search directly.
Bing seems to be doing a pretty good job.
With google's privacy snafu's and other mishaps, I could see them getting upset within 5 years.
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#4I'm sorry to say it but they never stood a chance, i'm not sure if a company will ever be able to take on Google in search directly.
Especially not something funded to this degree, the barrier to what is a success is way to high with Google Search as a direct competitor. Something like the one man startup DDG can redefine success as a much more manageable target, allowing a lot longer to compete without going under.
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#5I remember the days when so much hype was around it and now when I read the title I thought to myself, hmm, I remember that name, but who are they exactly?
It feels like they were one of those x factor winners or big brother winners who have a lot of media attention to start with and then become complacent and do not keep up of playing the game of keeping the attention of the public. Marketing is not just five minutes of fame.
I think also that what the above teaches is that there is a lot of hype in social media. Sure there are real serious and enlightening conversations, but much of it is hype and trends and discussions. Maybe it is best to retreat from mass communications like the internet and focus on your projects only. Better be an actor in my own show than a spectator in others.
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#6I'm sorry to say it but they never stood a chance, i'm not sure if a company will ever be able to take on Google in search directly.
There's something bigger that stands out about this whole episode to me. It's not just that they never stood a chance. It's that if they were smart enough to build an even half-way functional engine, they should have been able to see from long before launch how things were going to work out. I'm very interested in whatever organizational or psychological dysfunction lead them to releasing the product at all.
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#7Strange how an unfunded startup with a single founder (DuckDuckGo) is getting better results than a $30million backed one comprised of a bunch of ex-Googlers.
Re: Cuil Goes Down for Good
#8I'm sorry to say it but they never stood a chance, i'm not sure if a company will ever be able to take on Google in search directly.
Bing seems to be doing a pretty good job. With google's privacy snafu's and other mishaps, I could see them getting upset within 5 years.
Bing is the default search in IE, it had a significant chunk of the market with Live Search previously and started off with a $100 million dollar advertising blitz. Add to that the number and talent of the employees working on it and you have something no startup could hope to replicate.
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#9$33m sounds like a lot to burn through to get to the gut wrenching point of being down to last pennies.
But for those saying "no one can take on Google" and "search isn't an interesting space any more", remember Google got told the same things about the incumbents and "the portals" when it started.
There is always a better way out there. Someone just hasn't found it yet. Chances are low that Google will still dominate search in 10 years, or that most people will search the way they do now.
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#10Strange how an unfunded startup with a single founder (DuckDuckGo) is getting better results than a $30million backed one comprised of a bunch of ex-Googlers.
I voted you up but I don't find it strange. yegg only answers to himself and his users while operating with tight constraints. Cuil, however, had a bumper budget and a cadre of smart people with a plethora of ideas and directions in mind.
To me, Cuil looked like a prime example of design by committee whereas DDG is clearly opinionated but thrives because of it.