Getting it right is cool… not so much for Cuil…
From TechCrunch today:
[From How To Lose Your Cuil 20 Seconds After Launch]
For the last 3 weeks or so I’ve had some people asking me why I’m waiting so long to get page2call released. From their perspective it was better to get it out and start the marketing/pr cycle as fast as possible… after all we’d have time to add/fix everything “later”.
Cuil is a cautionary tale about what happens when your primary business BECOMES PR and Marketing instead of creating solutions that deliver real results for your customers:
The hype cycle now lasts less than a day. Take yesterday’s over-hyped launch of stealth search startupCuil, which was quickly followed by a backlash when everyone realized that it was selling a bill of goods.
This is a perfect example of why I am so committed to ensuring that what we do delivers for you… I’m perfectly happy to let that be the hype about cosinity…
more of the TechCrunch article after the jump…