It’s the perfect example of how not to create a startup and of everything that could possibly go wrong with an ambitious software project.įrom day one the results were so incomplete and irrelevant, that one has to wonder if the $33M they received was spent on developing the technology needed to clone Samuel Becket and place him in charge as the chief architect of the project. The first is Cuil (pronounced ‘cool’), which as many know, has become something of a running joke online. It was bootstrapped (no external investors), came wrapped in a silly name, and virtually no one paid attention to its launch. They received plenty of funding ($33M) to get the ball rolling, and garnered a fair bit of press coverage when they first launched.Ī very different search engine, however, was started by just one person. One of them was started by xooglers (ex-Google employees) with plenty of experience in the field of search engines it had a team dedicated to its development and could afford to have a VP of communications.
The latter question may appear equally obvious as well, but let’s take the tale of two different search engines into consideration. The answer to the first question is obviously yes. But can we do better than Google? And will such innovation necessarily arrive from the research labs of giants like Apple or Microsoft? The incentive to get a slice of that huge pie is clearly there. These days, highly popular search engines are worth billions of dollars, mainly thanks to the massive advertisement businesses that can be built on top of them.
Yet there, right before our very eyes, it happened. We didn’t even know that it was possible to receive such good link suggestions from a search engine. Remember when Altavista seemed good enough? Then along came Google and seemingly overnight everything changed.
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