When the new search engine Cuil opened its site to public use on Monday, two curious things happened. The first was an enormous surge to try out the newest and potentially neatest search technology. The second was the crash of Cuil’s servers which were crushed under the unexpected weight of so many surfers.
The mass interest in Cuil (rhymes with “cool”) was more than the usual Monday morning meanderings as a means of procrastination. It is indicative of a massive wish for something different, an alternative to Google. That wish is expressed in headlines using phrases ranging from the terribly over-used “Google Killer Emerges†to the highly assumptive, “New Competitor for Googleâ€.
It’s not that the Internet, web marketers or the media dislike Google. Every reasonable person recognizes that Google is the greatest information index in human history. Google’s existence and its excellence is a historic accomplishment.
Cuil was so popular on Monday morning its servers buckled under the load. Embarrassing as the downtime might be, it is almost understandable. People very much wanted Cuil to live up to its hype. Cuil did not anticipate the market’s want for something different.
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