{"id":8977,"date":"2010-11-05T06:43:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T06:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/cuil_is_dead.html"},"modified":"2010-11-05T06:43:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T06:43:58","slug":"cuil-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/cuil-is-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"Cuil is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/cuil-home_id%5B1%5D.png\" alt=\"cuil-home_id[1].png\" width=\"128\" height=\"69\" \/>For whatever reason &#8211; someone mentioned competing with Google I believe, I wondered what <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/fastsearch?blogs=13&amp;query=cuil\">Cuil<\/a> is doing these days. So I visited the site only to find it was gone. A quick search showed this Google competitor which launched with fanfare and lots over-hyping died out much more quietly than it launched. Too bad.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanfrancisco\/stories\/2010\/09\/20\/daily14.html\">burned through<\/a> $33M and has nothing to show for it &#8211; they didn&#8217;t even sell the domain name &#8211; not that it would have fetched much &#8211; perhaps it would have made a worthy redirect to Bing.com?<\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/search\/2010\/09\/17\/google-wanna-be-cuil-closes-not-so-cuil-anymore\/\">Google Wanna Be Cuil Closes, Not So Cuil Anymore<\/a> (thenextweb.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markevanstech.com\/2010\/11\/01\/blekko-the-next-google-or-the-next-cuil\/\">Blekko: The Next Google or the Next Cuil?<\/a> (markevanstech.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/09\/17\/cuil-goes-down-and-we-hear-its-down-for-good\/\">Cuil Goes Down, And We Hear It&#8217;s Down For Good<\/a> (techcrunch.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glinden.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/cuil-is-dead.html\">Cuil is dead<\/a> (glinden.blogspot.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/external\/venturebeat\/2010\/09\/18\/18venturebeat-supposed-google-killer-cuils-reign-of-terror-46550.html\">Supposed Google-Killer Cuil&#8217;s Reign of Terror May Finally Be Over<\/a> (nytimes.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/cuil-goes-offline-future-not-so-cool-51199\">Cuil Goes Offline, Future Not So Cool<\/a> (searchengineland.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason &#8211; someone mentioned competing with Google I believe, I wondered what Cuil is doing these days. So I visited the site only to find it was gone. A quick search showed this Google competitor which launched with fanfare and lots over-hyping died out much more quietly than it launched. Too bad. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,1678,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}