Search engine that rapidly became a famous meme to describe failure and lack of results in a web search. It is only used as a noun currently but the word may assume a verb form, like googling, if the team keeps up the search fail.
Breaking News: Experts concluded that the huge saucer-like object that hovers in the earth's atmosphere is nothing to be worried about after they have used a Cuil search for extra terresterial life form and came up with nothing.
by Rhuarc July 31, 2008
Cuil (pronounced "cool") is a search engine created by ex-Google employees. It is renowned for failing to produce helpful results, and it has already reached meme status as a fail inside a fail wrapped in a fail.
by clpo13 July 31, 2008
by Hypocrites August 4, 2008
Cuil is a new search engine that has appeared a few days ago. It is pronounced "cool". This is also brought up to be the "google-killer", but we are just waiting for it to fail.
by xPsycho July 31, 2008
To search for something easy to find but be unable to find it. (From cuil.com, a surprisingly ineffective search engine.)
by riznit2 July 30, 2008
Person 1: I need to find information about the evolutionary history of humans.
Person 2: Search Cuil for "toaster"
Person 2: Search Cuil for "toaster"
by Frederick William II July 30, 2008
kool Proper noun, verb
1. n. A search engine created by former employees of Google to compete with the Google search engine - was a spectacular failure in its most basic function.
2. v. A failed attempt at finding relevant or useful information; a botched research endeavor which produces inaccurate or unrelated data.
1. n. A search engine created by former employees of Google to compete with the Google search engine - was a spectacular failure in its most basic function.
2. v. A failed attempt at finding relevant or useful information; a botched research endeavor which produces inaccurate or unrelated data.
"Yeah, I Cuiled some information from the internet for my research paper on tree frogs, and it returned pages about pop tarts."
by The_Puppet July 30, 2008