Search engine cuil (yeah that's supposed to be pronounced "cool" which makes me wonder what their verb for googling will be) officially premiered yesterday and some people thought that using it was no fun at all. "It is basically unusable - paint dries faster. I got two different search results on my name done within 2 hours." said a dude called Gopal Shenoy at Chrisbrogan.com - meanwhile Chris Brogan naturally vanity-surfed and found that cuil did not find him at all.
Everyone seems to find odd images when they vanity search on Cuil, so naturally I wanted to get in on that action. Vanity surfing my full name in quotes "Åsk Wäppling" gets me lots of odd stuff - and not a single hit from Adland even though you'd think my name does appear often enough in the press clippings here. None of the images are me, nor from Adland (or dabitch.net) but they seem to oddly sync with me anyway - Swedish latte-slurping puppy-loving blogger, one gathers. Weird! Lars Werner in Norway wonders where all the supposed Lars Werners he finds on Cuil come from. What do you find when vanity surfing your own name (or adgrunt username?)
Searching for Adland does not give me Adland as top hit. Searching for Dabitch does not give me Dabitch.net anywhere near the top - searching for the URL's themselves doesn't either. Instead all sorts of blogger accounts, gawker commenting accounts or anything else I've used maybe five times pops up. You'd think that the author: Dabitch on Adland with 8493 posts on advertising under her belt would appear somewhere in the top ten and outdo my ever-so-silent Gawker login.
Under the first page for "Robbie" I'm getting Robbie Williams, Robbie Coltrane, and something called "Robbie's Pimp Pad" which I don't want to investigate further.
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