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Is it Cuil yet?
Contributed by: John Scherer   on 8/20/2008

It's been about a month since search engine Cuil.com launched. Designed by some ex-Google folks it launched with a splash, but initial reviews were less than splashy.

Think in terms of having to swim against Michael Phelps. And Phelps gets a two lap head start.

Dan Nystadt of IDG News Service reportsthat Cuil now has .0070% of the search engine market. By contrast Google has just over 70%.

David vs Goliath and Goliath and David has no slingshot.

Google has reached that rare status of being both noun and verb. I remember when it launched some years back. People used to ask "Do you Yahoo?" back then. They don't any more.

Google has managed to hold off newcomers like Cuil, plus recent entrants like Wikea Search.

LIke any product or service, people need a compelling reason to switch. So far in the search business, no one has delivered.

At least not yet. But there are other "upstarts" out there with some different strategies. More on that in future blogs.

John W. Scherer
Video Professor, Inc.




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Lakewood , CO

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