Cuil Goes Down, And We Hear It

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When: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:17:16 -0600

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Cuil Goes Down, And We Hear It’s Down For Good

Cuil, the much maligned search engine that at one time had hopes of
toppling Google, has gone offline. And from what we hear from former
employees, it’s not just a temporary outage, it may be done for good. 
Those employees who are still with the company apparently weren’t
paid this week, and they’re starting to say they’re looking for new
jobs.


The company had raised $33 million in venture capital in 2007 and
2008. we first started covering Cuil in late 2007 when it was in
stealth. It launched in July 2008 but a month later their VP Product
had bailed. By December 2008 it had little traffic and since then
things have only gotten stranger.


To be clear, we’ve confirmed nothing right now except that the site
is down, the rest of what we’re hearing is from former employees. 
We’ll update as we hear back from the company and/or investors. 
Meanwhile, it’s in the DeadPuil.


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