$33 Million bucks later: Another Google challenger goes down - GoFuckYourself.com

$5 submissions · 09-28-2010, 04:07 PM

Remember, Cuil? It was supposedly a new and better Google challenger... Well, it's down for the count: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/17/cui...down-for-good/

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The company had raised $33 million in venture capital in 2007 and 2008. we first started covering Cuil in late 2007 when it was in stealth. It launched in July 2008 but a month later their VP Product had bailed. By December 2008 it had little traffic and since then things have only gotten stranger.

Allison · 09-28-2010, 04:09 PM

Now that was impressive that they raised $33M to create something most people knew would go no where.

$5 submissions · 09-28-2010, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Allison

Now that was impressive that they raised $33M to create something most people knew would go no where.

It's VC money. It's all about having the right initial backers who are connected to the right VC circles.

I agree with you though--wasn't hard to see this coming considering the amount of R&D Google spends.

vittle · 09-28-2010, 04:12 PM

google need to watch our for Baidu

devilspost · 09-28-2010, 04:14 PM

The domain name was fail.

itto · 09-28-2010, 04:14 PM

my prediction: in about 1 year from now you'll see the same news regarding blekko.

HomerSimpson · 09-28-2010, 04:17 PM

wow $33mil...

money for nothing...

$5 submissions · 09-28-2010, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by devilspost

The domain name was fail.

True. Even if you DID want to visit, it's hard to spell just form the pronounciation.

uno · 09-28-2010, 04:30 PM

How are you supposed to pronounce it?

BIGTYMER · 09-28-2010, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by uno

How are you supposed to pronounce it?

I'd assume like QLL.

PornMD · 09-28-2010, 04:35 PM

$33 million and they failed because they didn't spend even just a couple thousand more to get a better name. Just goes to show that the domain is one of the most important if not THE most important for a venture as big as that. Microsoft doesn't fuck around - Live.com, Bing.com...they know well enough that they would stand no chance if they were on a shitty unmemorable domain.

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Originally Posted by uno

How are you supposed to pronounce it?

I always pronounced it "kwheel", though I had always thought that they intended it to be an alternate spelling of "cool" and if so, it was about as big of a fail as they could do at that short of DogShit.com.

Ethersync · 09-28-2010, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by devilspost

The domain name was fail.

kane · 09-28-2010, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by devilspost

The domain name was fail.

Yeah, the site was destined to fail with that name.

HookUPcom · 09-28-2010, 05:22 PM

they should have bought my... CashForJesus.com

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Jdoughs · 09-28-2010, 05:23 PM

Never was a Google challenger, ever.

Randy West · 09-28-2010, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by vittle

google need to watch our for Baidu

MaDalton · 09-28-2010, 05:33 PM

next time give me 10%, i'll tell you how stupid the idea is and voilà - $29.7 million saved

heymatty · 09-28-2010, 08:40 PM

I assume they VC's got blinded by the owners being ex google engineers.

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 09-28-2010, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by uno

How are you supposed to pronounce it?

it was supposed to "cool"

GAMEFINEST · 09-28-2010, 09:33 PM

who? curl what

xxweekxx · 09-28-2010, 10:23 PM

dumbass guys.. stupid domain.. bing/microsoft has spent tens of millions, yet barely have any search engine market share.. google 4 life

BloodFart · 09-28-2010, 10:35 PM

what the fuck is a cuil anyway?

will76 · 09-28-2010, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by $5 submissions

Remember, Cuil? It was supposedly a new and better Google challenger... Well, it's down for the count: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/17/cui...down-for-good/

33 million and the best they could come up with is cuil ?

will76 · 09-28-2010, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

it was supposed to "cool"

then they should have bought cool.com

clickhappy · 09-28-2010, 10:55 PM

Google is fucking kick-ASS lately, how it shows you search results live before you can even hit "Search".
its unreal. no one will ever be able to compete with that.

clickhappy · 09-28-2010, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by will76

33 million and the best they could come up with is cuil ?

thats what I said. It sounds like a french-canadian website. meh

Klen · 09-29-2010, 04:04 AM

The problem with search engines to make it work you need to have billions of servers which will crawl internet.

Dirty Dane · 09-29-2010, 04:29 AM

Never heard of it.

pornguy · 09-29-2010, 05:23 AM

Should have started it with a better name

Hentaikid · 09-29-2010, 06:38 AM

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my prediction: in about 1 year from now you'll see the same news regarding blekko.

never heard of it! At least Cuil rings a few bells

gmr324 · 09-29-2010, 06:42 AM

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I assume they VC's got blinded by the owners being ex google engineers.

Familiar story blinded by thinking they can re-create the same empire

_Richard_ · 09-29-2010, 08:23 AM

'A wise old owl sat in an oak,
The more he heard, the less he spoke,
The less he spoke, the more he heard,
Why aren’t we all like that wise old bird.'

minicivan · 09-29-2010, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by PornMD

$33 million and they failed because they didn't spend even just a couple thousand more to get a better name. Just goes to show that the domain is one of the most important if not THE most important for a venture as big as that. Microsoft doesn't fuck around - Live.com, Bing.com...they know well enough that they would stand no chance if they were on a shitty unmemorable domain.

I always pronounced it "kwheel", though I had always thought that they intended it to be an alternate spelling of "cool" and if so, it was about as big of a fail as they could do at that short of DogShit.com.

It was never meant to succeed. Anyone that knows anything about search engines or follows SEO and search marketing in a serious, saw this was not intended to succeed to start with. The results from the first day were horrible, did not improve with more time and their very basic idea "that all pages online need to be indexed" as the core idea for "better results" is wrong since a large % of those pages are spam and generated automatically and there is a reason Google does no longer index all pages for many years now. This was a old idea from early days that search engines finally got away from. It sounds good as marketing only to investors. There are also very big technical and mathematical problems with scale and assigning values (pagerank/webrank) to over a trillion pages in real time on an internet, that only google/bing/yahoo have managed to figure out with any real success. It will take much more than $33,000,000.00 to start a new Google or Bing. First of all, it will require a new core way to put values to pages in real time based on popularity which requires math formula like PageRank/HITS/webrank etc which can scale with accuracy forever. That is a huge math/technical problem by itself.

This Cuil was just a scam for tax write off or to scam investors. It was never meant to be a serious attempt at creating a real search engine. It was clear to some people from the start who know anything about search engines.

People do not understand that Google/Bing/Yahoo are not the only real search engines because of marketshare. They are the only real search engines because they are the only ones to successfully scale with the growth of internet.

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 09-29-2010, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by clickhappy

It sounds like a french-canadian website.

No wonder nobody wanted to use it...

The Dawg · 09-29-2010, 09:27 AM

Wow it would be great to get in those VC circles. Bullshit your way into raising millions, doing next to nothing for 2 years while getting paid then close shop.

Phoenix · 09-29-2010, 09:40 AM

i want to raise 33 million

maxjohan · 09-29-2010, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by vittle

google need to watch our for Baidu

Yeah, I checked that site up. They are just as good as google. Or so I think. If they turn their heads worldwide. Google is up for a challenge. The name is good too.

$5 submissions · 09-30-2010, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by maxjohan

Yeah, I checked that site up. They are just as good as google. Or so I think. If they turn their heads worldwide. Google is up for a challenge. The name is good too.

Google has more to fear from Facebook. I get more traffic from FB now than SEs

FetishWeb · 09-30-2010, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by $5 submissions

Google has more to fear from Facebook. I get more traffic from FB now than SEs

Read up on any mainstream marketing its transitioned from "hey you should be spamming google" to "hey go spam facebook and twitter".

Jakez · 09-30-2010, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by $5 submissions

Remember, Cuil?

No.. no I don't. lol

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