Many years ago, mid to late 90’s there were the “…Ate My Balls” sites. They were sort of the lolcats of the day.  You picked a celebrity and made a jokey page about them eating your balls. Call it a day.

You’re hard pressed to actually find one of these nowadays since most of them were Geocities and Angelfire pages. Mr T Ate My Balls was one of the better ones.

So this brings us to Cuil, a new and overhyped search engine. Since I work in the industry i’ll always give a new product a test drive. The first thing I did when I fired up Cuil was to search for my own sites, most of which rank very well in Google and Yahoo for the search terms you might expect.

Take this site for example. It’s called Misanthropy Today. Let’s see what  a Google search looks like:

As you can see all relevant to this site or likely info that someone may be searching for in regards to this site.

Let’s just try the word “Misanthropy” on Google now:

#3 . But rightly so, most people are probably curious what the word means. Fair enough.

Let’s try our old friend Yahoo:

Not bad. My main site, a popular post and my old wordpress site. Good work.

Now lets give Cuil a try:

Very interesting indeed. They’ve gone to the trouble of indexing a spammy site that is scraping my content. Good work Cuil. Also, they list my friend Chuch’s wordpress blog where he mentioned my site a few times.

Cuil you’re the worst search engine i’ve ever seen and i’m not even sure what you’re doing that’s different other than giving people 8 goddamned results that look like the homepage of wordpress.com.

I just read they took a  $25M  investment recently. Maybe with that money they can actually afford to build some search technology.

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