Comments on: Cuil Fails At Naming Itself. Preview of their Future Failure.

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:06:32 +0000

I can already hear business textbook publishers updating their information about great product failures and adding Cuil to a list containing Edsel and New Coke.

Personally, I don’t mind the name, but I do mind how the product doesn’t work. Bragging that you have something that is better than Google is one thing, unable to perform even at a basic level is a travesty.

By: Dube

Dube — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:38:07 +0000

Cuil is definitely not cool. The name choice is quite unfortunate. It’s great if a company can invent a really catchy word for a name. But like you said, NOT when the word actually exists and your just spelling it really strangely.

By: cheney

cheney — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:11:30 +0000

This will be studied later on as a case of failure that was massively hyped in the media.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:15:22 +0000

What’s funny is if you “Cuil” the term “Cuil” you don’t get results about the site, but if you Google “Cuil” you do ?!?!

Not a good first showing.

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