Keep laughing; Cuil isn't quitting yet
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Keep laughing; Cuil isn't quitting yet
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Re: Keep laughing; Cuil isn't quitting yet
#2The 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.
Re: Keep laughing; Cuil isn't quitting yet
#3The 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 n…
People forget that Google had the same problem. Before Google, "google" was spelled "googol".
Re: Keep laughing; Cuil isn't quitting yet
#4making Cuil the neighborhood store stocking the hard to find antique and offbeat books.
Cuil's design is too slick to pass as a neighborhood book store. It needs more rough edges and needs too appear old and established. Instead it feels young and fresh and naive.
Re: Keep laughing; Cuil isn't quitting yet
#5The 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 n…
People forget that Google had the same problem. Before Google, "google" was spelled "googol".
It 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.
Re: Keep laughing; Cuil isn't quitting yet
#6The 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 n…
People forget that Google had the same problem. Before Google, "google" was spelled "googol".
Yes, as jacquesm points out, Google actually gains from a default spelling of how the word sounds. But Cuil does not.
Re: Keep laughing; Cuil isn't quitting yet
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
People forget that Google had the same problem. Before Google, "google" was spelled "googol".
It 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.
Pretty sure twiceler is Cuil....
Re: Keep laughing; Cuil isn't quitting yet
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
People forget that Google had the same problem. Before Google, "google" was spelled "googol".
It 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.
Twiceler is Cuil's UA.
Re: Keep laughing; Cuil isn't quitting yet
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It 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.
Pretty sure twiceler is Cuil....
Ah! 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
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.
Re: Keep laughing; Cuil isn't quitting yet
#10Personally, I would worry about having my livelihood run on those servers. What's their redundant power system now? Do they even have one?
Their wooden pallet/cables hanging over table system seems like every Sysadmin darkest nightmares...