[Startups]

Cuil (once again, pronounced “cool”) underwent a particularly messy launch last week. CEO Tom Costello and his team were expecting a few hundred thousand queries on day one, but the name Cuil seemed to have been making its rounds in the blogosphere even before the touted “Google-killer”'s launch. After the launch and about 50 million queries in less than 24 hours, Tom set to do a bit of damage control on its overloaded servers.

Barely 24 hours has passed since the new search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool”) went online. It came with a fair amount of hype – some even touted it to be the “Google-killer.” While this may not be the case, I can't deny the fact that Cuil does have the potential to give Google a run for its money.