theregister.co.uk — Yes, Cuil sucks. But there's reason to forgive the company's epic ineptitude. Cuil is the helpless victim of outlandish Silicon Valley social norms that force net startups into wasting their $33 million in venture capital on strawberries and muffins while giving employees free rein to work as little as they like.
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lexorAug 2, 2008
Their launch was tragic for two reasons: the search engine has issues, and they tried calling themselves "cool". If there's one social axiom to take from past generations, it's that calling yourself cool is anything but cool.And they didn't get that right. I will forever pronounce it "kweel". They doomed themselves by claiming to be a "Google killer"... not because they like to feed their staff.
Closed AccountAug 2, 2008
Thanks for messing up my gaming RSS feed!
dalittleAug 2, 2008
Cuil sucks, because of their relentless viral marketing campaign.
ivorydriveAug 2, 2008
huh... I never thought about this before. If you want to find something on google, you google it. So if you want to find something via cuil, would you have to cuil it?
solistusAug 4, 2008
So in the good old days, only males worked and they would gladly blow off family obligations for overtime? Classy times, huh?And nowadays, when people enter into a contractual obligation to work and then plan a social life outside their work obligations, they sometimes expect not to have to do more than they ever agreed to do so somebody else can make more profit? The horror!Don't even get me started on your narcissism comments re: Facebook and Myspace. I doubt you'd accuse "older gen boss" of narcissism for the good ole' boy networking he did to land his executive job. Networking has democratised; now, everyone can do it. It's not narcissism to try to meet new people. There are certainly narcissistic uses of things like Myspace, but claiming that the mere act of participating in these forms of social networking constitutes narcissism reveals you to be horribly out of touch with modern society.I agreed with where I thought you were going with your initial comment about spoiled internet startup workers who would actually leave a company over something like food perks. However, the reason these people are 'spoiled' is not because of some 50's throwback belief in corporate loyalism. It's simple economics: if you can afford to quit a job over something so trivial, that indicates a certain level of wealth and an enormous sense of entitlement. It sickens me to think that some single mother is out there struggling to feed her children while another yuppie suit born into opulence leaves yet another easy, cushy, high-paying job because the company stopped providing him complementary muffins. That, however, is not the direction you went, and I have to strongly reject your regressive views. The idea that you should prove your worth as an individual by sacrificing more of your personal life to work than others is eerily fascist. Work should be a voluntary arrangement with clearly defined limits. The fact that I agree to come in 9-5 every day for pay does NOT mean my boss owns my evenings or weekends.
mweatherAug 4, 2008
It's a better name than that Goggle search engine.
Closed AccountAug 5, 2008
Congratulations!!!
Closed AccountAug 16, 2008
cuil = s**t