SAN FRANCISCO: New search engine Cuil faced the dichotomy of the media establishment when it launched last week, with traditional media hyping the product as a Google-killer-in-waiting, while bloggers criticized the product for not being ready for prime time.
The startup, founded by former Google employees and other tech industry veterans, kept its search engine under wraps until a week prior to the launch, when a handful of top-tier reporters and bloggers, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ...