Remember Cuil? Yeah, no else does either

24 Sep 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Technology, Web Tags: ,

According to the latest figures for the end of August the Cuil market share has dropped to, well, just about nothing at all. Net Applications has the market share being a very meagre 0.01 percent. At least it is a very steady 0.01 percent though.

The article points out the obvious problem: their search results suck. Aside from a disasterous rollout in July, the technology was hyped so high didn’t even come close to delivering on it’s promise.

And in the “huh” factor, reading this article made me say to myself, “Oh yeah, they did spring up not that long ago, didn’t they. Oh well.” And off I went to Google.

Cuil frozen out: market share drops to next to nothing.

Sometimes It's Just Better Not to Know

21 Mar 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Technology, Uhm... yeah Tags: , , ,

What the hell is wrong with people? I was going through some stats and ran through search terms that drew people to this blog. (An aside: My apologies to anyone who came here for actual information.)

Seriously though, what are you really looking for when you search for some of these strings?

  • what is a disjointed sentence (uh oh, time to polish my writing a bit)
  • brucewillis.com (I think that’s a compliment)
  • mr. mufflesworth (???)
  • childishness doing pee (my favorite, going here, I think)

Ah, the awe and mystery of the Internet.

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