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TechCrunch: Is CUIL Killing Websites?

By Marc Handelman on September 2nd, 2008

TechCrunch’s Don Reisinger reports serious issues with CUIL’s search robot. Evidently, the company’s ‘experimental’ robot (monikered Twiceler) crawler is taking sites down, due to it’s (reportedly) amateurish design and bandwidthg hogging behavior. Quite frankly, the same call-to-arms was heard when Google first began indexing…

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Tags: Common Sense, What Were They Thinking

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