Who’s going to admit they’ve cuiled themselves?!
Posted by me today on http://slashdot.org/ in response to this Slashdot article about the launch of a new search engine, called “Cuil“. Reposted here for your convenience. [ed.]
*crickets*
OK, I will.
My website is http://www.ursuspacificus.net/blog/
I could find no search results pointing to my website on Cuil. Nor could I find any results indicating any websites out there in the series of tubes link to my site. Tried with quotes and without… Tried lopping off the path. Tried lopping off the protocol spec. Tried lopping off the “www” and the TLD. Nothing. All I got was a bunch of links to dating sites which have apparently scraped my profile from sites I’m actually on. WTF?
Long lost friends have found me by googling me.
I know my website has some visibility by googling myself.
Having cuiled myself, I’m left wondering whether my website is even up at all! …wait… there it is.
And how does one *pronounce* “cuil”, anyway?!
I tend to think it’s homonymous with “soil”