{"id":845,"date":"2008-07-30T09:41:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T08:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2008-07-30T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T09:08:10","slug":"cuilapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2008\/07\/30\/cuilapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuilapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you are familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/cuil.com\/\">Cuil<\/a>, the search engine that was announced on Monday to the accompaniment of a lot of fanfare. People flocked to the site to find out more about this search engine that was designed by ex-Google employees and was going to knock Google off of the top spot. The site, naturally, collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>When it finally did come back up, it was catastrophically bad. Searches for terms such as &#8220;rabbit&#8221; and &#8220;porcupine&#8221; returned zero results. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/07\/29\/cuil_launch\/\">It had other problems too<\/a> (not safe for work).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all had a nice laugh about it during the last couple of days, but only this morning have I finally realised the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Cuil was not designed by ex-Google employees. It was designed by current Google employees. It&#8217;s a covert operation that has been concocted to send out the following message to would-be competitors: <b>&#8220;Do not try to beat us. You will lose.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you are familiar with Cuil, the search engine that was announced on Monday to the accompaniment of a lot of fanfare. People flocked to the site to find out more about this search engine that was designed by ex-Google employees and was going to knock Google off of the top spot. The site, naturally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[439,440],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","tag-cuil","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}