Ask HN: Why Did Cuil Fail?

1 pointsby saadalemover 5 years ago

What could be done to have made it successful ?

3 comments

<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7da5i/police_raids_reveal_baby_farms/c06cqxb/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7da5i/police_rai...</a><p>That post pretty much nailed it for me. Asking for a hamburger and getting a raccoon? That's about how far off the mark their results were at the time.

smacktowardover 5 years ago

Even back in the aughts, if you want to be successful in search, there has to be some angle in which your product is better than Google's.<p>Cuil wasn't.

gshdgover 5 years ago

For people to have heard of it would probably be a start.