Not So Cuil After All
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Not So Cuil After All
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Re: Not So Cuil After All
#2The initial reactions to Cuil remind me a lot of the initial reactions to Google ~10 years ago.
Does anybody truly have a reasonable expectation that Cuil will match or better Google on their initial release?
Re: Not So Cuil After All
#3Unless the blog author builds software that never crashes -- even when it get millions of hits on its first day, then he should cut them some slack. I'll put money on the fact that Google didn't have the same kind of traffic on their first day that Cuil did. And Google has had 10 years to get it write. Yet he expects perfection on the first day.
Re: Not So Cuil After All
#4"There's no such thing as bad publicity" - but there is such a thing as going public before your technology is ready, and thus turning off all the early adopters.
Most of the geek/connected crowd has now heard of Cuil. And most have now tried it.
And, sadly for Cuil, most will never try it again. That's one hell of a wasted PR shot. Rookie mistake, huh.
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#5The initial reactions to Cuil remind me a lot of the initial reactions to Google ~10 years ago. Does anybody truly have a reasonable expectation that Cuil will match or better Google on their initial release?
No, I was impressed with google the first time I used it, and that was early on.
Re: Not So Cuil After All
#6The initial reactions to Cuil remind me a lot of the initial reactions to Google ~10 years ago. Does anybody truly have a reasonable expectation that Cuil will match or better Google on their initial release?
No, I was impressed with google the first time I used it, and that was early on.
I guess my early results were different, I often recall getting "better" results on Yahoo and AltaVista, but preferring Googles overall UI better, so I kept at it.
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#7Unless the blog author builds software that never crashes -- even when it get millions of hits on its first day, then he should cut them some slack. I'll put money on the fact that Google didn't have the same kind of traffic on their first day that Cuil did. And Google has had 10 years to get it write. Yet he expects perfection on the first day.
s/get it write/get it right/Re: Not So Cuil After All
#8Unless the blog author builds software that never crashes -- even when it get millions of hits on its first day, then he should cut them some slack. I'll put money on the fact that Google didn't have the same kind of traffic on their first day that Cuil did. And Google has had 10 years to get it write. Yet he expects perfection on the first day.
The blog author was one of the founders of Lycos (read: search engine long before Google) and was pretty involved in keeping it alive under stress (albeit 1990s stress, not 2000s stress).
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#9Unless the blog author builds software that never crashes -- even when it get millions of hits on its first day, then he should cut them some slack. I'll put money on the fact that Google didn't have the same kind of traffic on their first day that Cuil did. And Google has had 10 years to get it write. Yet he expects perfection on the first day.
s/get it write/get it right/
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