Cuil is Stone Cold - Another 'Google Killer' Bites the Dust
As spotted in the SEW Forums by member sitetruth, Cuil appears to be history. Quoting sitetruth’s post from yesterday: “The employees were told at 11 AM today, and the servers shut down at 4 PM PDT.”
Former employees also told TechCrunch that this isn’t temporary and they weren’t paid this week.
Cuil, founded in 2005, launched in July 2008 to much hype, calling itself “the world’s biggest search engine.” But users didn’t seem to care.
Cuil was created by former Google engineers Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier, who picked up $33 million in venture capital to launch the search engine. Traffic to the site peaked by September 2008.
No official word yet from the company.
UPDATE: According to TechCrunch: “Cuil was in the final stages of an acquisition as of last Wednesday, and everything was in place except the final signatures. Then the deal fell apart for some reason.”
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