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Comment by jamesaguilar | Hacker News Reader

Following our own advice is hard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil

From another article in the home page today (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/24/ex.google.employe...):

  But abandoning Google hasn't always proved to be a wise or
  permanent move. Anna Patterson left the company in 2007 to
  start a rival search engine called Cuil. When that tanked, she
  returned to Google in September.

... I can't believe they hired her back.

Why wouldn't they? She proved she's awesome at difficult stuff. Ultimate failure didn't unprove that.

Wow, the same Anna Patterson. I don't understand how Cuil became such a disaster. Even early Google seemed alright.

I don't either, and I'd love to know who does and whether they've written about it.

I tink that Cuil became a disaster because Gogle existed. When google came out it was easily 10x better than what was currently on the market. The same cant be same for cuil.

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