Cuil – The Next Google?

Implications: Well it was bound to happen.  Google was proclaimed the next Yahoo. Now Cuil is the next Google.

Analysis: I am getting so tired of hearing about search engines.  The search business alone is no longer considered a sustainable model – just look at Google.  Yahoo is a DOA (dead on arrival) thanks to the incompetence of the executive time.  Now we have Cuil – pronounced Cool.

My question is what is so unique about Cuil?  It is summer and the news cycle for telecom is a little slow.  We do need a little excitement.  Yahoo’s goose is cooked.  Microsoft ought to purchase AOL and ignore Yahoo.  Google has been quiet of late.  Time to rattle their cage.

Cuil’s selling point is that it will not retain information about users’ search histories or surfing patterns.  Sounds great but I have a question – How do you make money from it?  Measuring demographics is where the industry is heading.  Now suddenly we have a company that says it won’t measure demographics?  Is this another situation where the company does not generate revenue but generates searches and then uses that information to establish a valuation?  Oh well, I should not complain it employs people.

I look forward to hearing what Cuil will do to make money.  I got my magnifying glass on them now.