Cuil denies spamming our blogs with comment spam

Cuil’s official denial of comment spam with cuil.com link

“We’ve received a few reports of spam comments on various blogs that “advertise” Cuil, among other sites. We at Cuil would like to assure everyone out there that we have nothing to do with this. We have not and would not engage in this activity. It is likely that someone is posting links to sites such as ours in an effort to disguise their true intent and trick comment filtering systems. Search engine guru Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land has commented on one post agreeing with this line of thinking.
So, to put the record straight: it’s not cool, and it’s not us. We use the Web too, and these kinds of things annoy us as much as they annoy you.
As a side note, we encourage webmasters to use the nofollow attribute for links in their comments and forums. Google (and others) indicate they use this as a signal to ignore links. If this practice becomes more common, perhaps we can discourage these people from bothering with these posts in the first place.
Happy searching and enjoy the holiday season!”

Cuil Potential google competitor or an other major failure

cuil.com a new search engine released today claims to overtake Google. It is co-founded by former Google employee . Google’s Anna petterson is the co-founder of Cuil.

“In her two years at Google, Anna Patterson helped design and build some of the pillars of the company’s search engine, including its large index of Web pages and some of the formulas it uses for ranking search results. Skip to next paragraph
The makers of the Cuil search engine say it should provide better results and show them in a more attractive manner.
Now, along with her husband, Tom Costello, and a few other Google alumni, she is trying to upstage her former employer.
On Monday, their company, Cuil, is unveiling a search engine that they promise will be more comprehensive than Google’s and that they hope will give its users more relevant results.”

Due to too much bragging Cuil is down now,

I get the following message:

“We’ll be back soon…
Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity.
Thanks for your patience.

They are not even ready for 1% of load Google gets but they want to beat Google lets see.

nytimes.com/2008/07/28/technology/28cool.html