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Cuil you guys suck ! Dont

ass — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:28:40 -0400

Cuil you guys suck ! Dont ever advertise something thats not ready yet ! I am never coming back to your site !

cuil suiks I searched for

Bobby — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:24:14 -0400

cuil suiks

I searched for alltel and it had an image of tmobile as their first result... also they page was layed out funky like it was incomplete. I actually hit refresh a few times thinking it would change.

Lameness pretty much all around.

It is supposed to be CUIL

David Kuan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:45:41 -0400

It is supposed to be CUIL ... not CIUL. Either way, I still think the name stinks!

WOW what a name "CIUL"!!! I

Bob Madore — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:38:39 -0400

WOW what a name "CIUL"!!!
I will bet that they did not check out the meaning of the word in Polish!!!!!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ciul
Ciul is basically same word as "chuj", but in different Polish dialect. (btw: Chuj means penis, dick in a rude way. Or a whore in some times)
Jaki ciul tam idzie! (Some dick is walking down here).
Adam to ciul bo wydymal moja Ewe! (Adam is a whore becouse he had sex with my girlfriend Eve)

Hopefully someone knowing Polish can verify the description.

Cuil is definitely going for

Chris — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:47:42 -0400

Cuil is definitely going for it, but it's hard to imagine them doing anything but incremental changes to what Google's done. And even that would take years of effort.

Me.dium.com has taken a different tack. We have a full web index, but we change the results based on the surfing activity of our user base (now over 2,000,000). It's in alpha, but I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. http://me.dium.com/search

I did a search of my name.

Jason — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:48:56 -0400

I did a search of my name. It is linked to my website and there is a photo of an olympic sharp shooter next to the link to my website? WTF? Yes there is an olympic sharp shooter with my same name but how in the hell did it get associated to my business?

funny thing is, I searched

td — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:55:54 -0400

funny thing is, I searched "cuil sucks" using cuil, not one result. "Cuil sucks" in google yieds 1,980 results. Type in "Google sucks" in Google and I get 144,000 results.

Very interesting...

You'd think that with $52M

KUEL.COM — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:59:14 -0400

You'd think that with $52M you could afford to shell out a couple hundred thousand to acquire all the variants of the name. Creativity obviously isn't their forte. (Hey! Let's quit working for a cearch engine and start our own search engine!)

Oh well, my (KUEL.COM) traffic is through the roof, so all's well that ends well!

@ Mark, No, they did not

Catherine — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:25:29 -0400

@ Mark,

No, they did not just remove my images, as all the images for the sites in my niche have now been removed. They're working on correcting the programming across their engine but the changes haven't trickled down and removed all the images as of yet (I'm not defending them, just sharing information).

@ John,

I'll be interested to see if you ever get your check. And you've given me a great strategy for protecting my copyright.

@ Catherine: They are still

Mark — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:51:56 -0400

@ Catherine:

They are still infringing copyrights. Probably they took down just your images. I found about 20 or so images from my site, promoting competing sites in Cuil. Not cool.

A takedown request goes out today.

I took the issue of image

Catherine — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:31:18 -0400

I took the issue of image copyright infringement right to the top - I emailed Tom Costello today after I failed to receive a timely response from Cuil support.

When I checked Cuil tonight, all images from listings to which they were not originally sourced have been removed. The only images shown are those that appear on the actual site listed (which is as it should be).

That's something encouraging about Cuil - they do listen to feedback (especially when thousands of potential DMCA cases are on the horizon).

Ah, Catherine, I see now. I

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira509894 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:52:29 -0400

Ah, Catherine, I see now. I saw they were linked, but didn't realize the links didn't go back to the original site.

Try searching for pressed

Pressed Penny — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:24:39 -0400

Try searching for pressed penny. Google results put pressedpenny.com at the top of the list, while cuil posts their graphics and zero links to them. Giving search results with other sites' graphics is a pretty cut and dried violation of copyright law. Most of their graphics don't match the search results sites.

trying to search for mt.

bolt — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:46:58 -0400

trying to search for mt. everest restaurant since monday without any results .. cuil ineed sucks.

@Cyndy You've missed the

Catherine — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:27:31 -0400

@Cyndy

You've missed the point. It's not about images being indexed, but how they're being used.

Yes, my images are indexed in every search engine, but they are credited and linked to my site and mine alone. Many of my images appear in the first page of Google's search results, but right underneath the image is credited to my site.

That's a huge difference that just slapping any image next to any listing without crediting the original source nor even linking to the site on which it appears.

No other search engine would dare to misuse images in that manner.

Hope that clarifies the issue.

Picture This: Kuil, ciul, or just "cuil sucks"?

Ian Lamont — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:11:47 -0400

The Google "Hot Trends" service is always a fun read, and a good way to see what memes are currently being buffeted about by news events, pop culture, and human curiosity.

Right now, the nuclear-powered hype machine promoting the launch of Cuil has helped place four related terms into the Hot Trends top ten -- cuil, cuil search, cuil stock and cuil.com. But the terms further down the page are also interesting. The 21 and 24 spots contain misspellings of the new search engine's name. Number 35 is 'cuil sucks' -- an unsurprising meme, considering Cuil's poor results for certain searches.

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