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Comment by demandred | Hacker News Reader

how is it pronounced? their name is not memorable.

It's just as memorable as google was on it's first day. A little branding and constantly improving results could make it a player. But, only time will tell. I'm cheering for them.

I think google is more 'spellable' than cuil... or is it ciul or coul or ceul. Hell, the title for the post spells it with 2 'l's

That is pretty ironic considering that google is actually a misspelling -- the correct spelling is "googol".

Of course. But googol isn't the 'expected/intuitive' spelling.

Any product that you have to explain to the user how to pronounce will fail.

I looked at the word and my first thought was "how do you say that" - you don't win people over by making them feel stupid.

Don't overgeneralize. Consider "Audi." While obvious to a German speaker, an English speaker who has never heard the word before will wonder if it should be "oh-DI," "OH-di," "OW-di," or "ow-DI?"

I think Cuil is a decent name, far better than Srchr or some other Web 2.0 contraction. If it overcomes its growing pains and solves all the hard problems involved in search, it'll do well.

Audi started in germany then went global. Is cuil starting in Ireland?

Imagine the way a teenage daughter of yuppies would say the word "cool". Kind of like: [KYOO ill]. That helped me remember it, anyway.

According to the article its "cool". I agree that it is not a memorable name.

sounds more like kewl

With $33m in venture they could have spared a few Gs for a better domain name.

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