I cannot wait for Cuil to crash and burn

In the past ten years, Google has risen from a small startup into one of the most powerful companies in existence. Google knows you better than you know yourself. Google would make a better president than Obama, McCain, Paul or Barr. Google is the new overlord, and I'm happy with that.

So what happens when some minor players who popped up halfway through Google's rise branch off and create a search engine, with the mistaken belief that the dot com bubble never burst?

Cuil is what happens.

Cuil is when a few ex-Google employees start a new company, constantly preach themselves as ex-Google employees, sucker a few investors to drop $33m, and then mismanage themselves into a search engine that has all the usefulness and relevance of Infoseek circa 2000.

Cuil seems to be stuck in the past. The site layout is atrocious, the relevancy is terrible, it has no extra search features (images, maps, news, etc.), and it blows money like it's 1999. Cuil pays for lavish extravagance for all employees, including weekly barbecues, catered lunch daily, gym memberships, on-site doctor, and fridges packed with food and snacks. In principle, this is fantastic, in practice, this is not a good method to run a business, especially when the product is as poor as Cuil.

Cuil is run by thieves. Not in the traditional sense, but in the sense that they were not responsible for Google's success, but they happily took money for proclaiming themselves as ex-Google employees building a Google killer. Cuil is built by a group who backstabbed Google, and the only good thing is that the product is so miserably bad, I know their treachery won't affect Google.