I agree. The only thing on my Google Reader list was Cuil. Read Write Web was the only, <i>not-positive</i> review of Cuil I could find. And your views are almost exactly like mine. It's nice and streamlined, but there aren't many cool features. - Ethan via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Agree with your assessment. I agree that the (a) bold claims and the (b) Google mystique are the 2 largest factors. Ironically, it is Google who is to blame for the blogosphere's obsession with being first. He who posts first gets the most links, and he who gets the most links, get the most love from Google. So this has caused the blogosphere to become so focused on timeliness vs. analysis in my opinion. - Elliott Ng via FriendFeed MT Plugin

+1 Elliott - Sprague D

I blogged about it yesterday too, felt a little disappointed. Not only because of the technology but also because the claim to take on Google was not well thought through. Hope going forward they can make Cuil more relevant to the search terms ! - Raj via FriendFeed MT Plugin

I also was not impressed with Cuil, realize that they used the "ex-googler" pedigree, know that some writers were way to eager to write positively about them BUT... ...can I get the phone number for their PR agency? =) - David via FriendFeed MT Plugin

b/c ppl like 2 complain about startups & they like 2 talk a subject 2 death so that by the 2nd day no one wants 2 hear about it anymore - ChaCha Fance

and yes +1 Elliott as well. - ChaCha Fance

While Cuil deserves top marks for getting so much launch PR, it is a little mind boggling that they would decide to do the launch when relevancy and freshness are extremely poor. I suspect that both will improve significantly in time, but first impressions count for a lot. Why not wait until the quality of the product is where it needs to be in order to seriously compete? - Mark Carey via Moopz

Yesterday I search for "shell programming", i did not get even 1 result. Today I got 120K. So I guess there is some learning going on behind the scenes. - pankaj via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Mary #57, well said! - Richard via FriendFeed MT Plugin

To be fair, to the average non-tech journalist, it was made by ex-googlers who "know the magic formula" and has a bigger index, which - for the average Joe - might aswell read 'better index', so it's understandable why it got a wide breadth or journalistic interest. Amongst all the non-tech-specific media outlets, I think the Motley Fool put it best: "Cuil is an indexer; a Google clone that decided to sift through three times more of the Web's garbage than others have." - Peter via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Maybe they should have called it "Cullible" - Jemm