Cuils VP Product Bails Out!
September 11th, 2008 by hbond{{chris}} It’s true! Louis Monier who was plucked from Google to join Cuil has bailed out a month after launch.
I’m not surprised by this, and it will hurt Cuil. Louis is a search powerhouse and his departure clearly underscores the short comings of the new search engine. While Cuil claims it can index the internet faster and cheaper than Google it means nothing if they can’t provide relevant content for most searches!
Without that crucial facet of search they won’t get the eyeballs to switch from Google and they won’t amount to any kind of competition. In fact they may just be relegated to a really cool experiment.
That would be an unfortunate end for the search engine startup since competition is what accelerates innovation. So, I hope that Cuil regroups and focuses their efforts on producing relevant results for every search. With the launch of 123People.com I’m amazed at how relevant their results are for a search on my name. Granted they are using Yahoo! to produce the results but boy they sure are more relevant than Cuil. Perhaps Cuil should drop parts of the index such as images and focus on web pages till they sort out the algo. In the meantime they have to find a replacement for Louis!
For more on this story see the TechCrunch story.
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Google is the king of search and it will take years and years for anything to even try to catch up. Their brand is recognized globally and the mere thought of competition makes everyone say ‘yeah right’. It almost makes me think that even if a rival search was better, we’d still be saying ‘ya right’ and using Google, lol.
Amber
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Okay, thats a total fail. All this hubboo in the blogsphere about Cuil and this happens. It is only a tiding on things to come. Cuil is now doomed to be a b-list engine with all the others
So far I haven’t heard or read anything good about Cuil. This just adds to that list!
Awesome – have never seen 123People before. Although, the search relevancy could be much better, I was surprised at how accurate it was and the amount of information it pulled in a short amount of time!
Google is the king of search and it will take years and years for anything to even try to catch up. Their brand is recognized globally and the mere thought of competition makes everyone say ‘yeah right’.
Great post! Thank you so much for sharing. Honestly I love google so much. I can say that it is part of my life.
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