Beautiful plumage!

And so we bid farewell to another search engine. Alas Cuil we hardly knew thee.

Launched with much fanfare by the press in late July 2008, Cuil boasted a larger  index than any other search engine. It displayed it’s results with a nicely composed page of long descriptions and thumbnails, which at the time was a rather refreshing change to the stark Swiss-like simplicity of other engine . It seemed at the time a breath of fresh air but as is the fate of all search engines people collectively shrugged their shoulders and went back to Google. Leaving us once more to ponder it’s unstoppable monopoly.