Cuil launches as the latest Google challenger, promising better search results than the market leader. Yet indexing of 120 billion Web pages won't help the users access the site any better; Cuil is hammered with traffic to make it impossible to use.

This morning around 8 a.m. EDT, I entered www.cuil.com to check out search startup Cuil (pronounced "cool" and derived from an Irish word for knowledge), which July 28 launched its own unique approach to organizing the ridiculous glut of information on the Web.

My point was to learn what I could about the company, it's founders and its overall approach before giving it a spin. In this matter, I succeeded. What I didn't try at the time was the search engine. I figured there would be plenty enough time for that later when I was more awake to test it.

Boy, was that a judgment error. I haven't been able to get in since, which is a major problem for a company that wants to nibble at Google's 70 percent search market share in the U.S. I'm not suffering from delusions; TechCrunch had a hard time getting in earlier today, too.

As a startup comprised largely of former Googleers, Cuil should know it can't prebrief tons of technology reporters, get losts of press about being a Google killer, and then launch a search engine that won't let everyone who wants to try it access it. 

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