What inspires a David to fight a Goliath?  Cuil is a search engine created by those who know how to make search engines.  These same people contributed to the being they’re now trying to surpass with merely brute force.  It seems Cuil’s strategy is trying to beat Google at the thing it does best.  You would think that it would make them experts at knowing the Achilles heel of the great search engine.  Even if they were able to find a potential weakness, would it be something google could not find in itself; in doing so, fixing itself?

This leads me to wonder: what markets are left from the pre-web 1.0 world?  Is web 2.0 a spawning of new interactive web applications, or is it merely a new version number on companies who have long stood the test of time?  Any web application that stands the test of time on their idea alone will soon be replaced by an iGoogle version, whether it be calendars or otherwise.

… “We’re gonna revolutionize the calendar industry.” …. Uh?

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