Is Cuil, the new search engine that seems to have lost momentum, trying to bring brand awareness back to the forefront by adding spam comments to blogs? That’s what I’d say — after all, they spammed my blog:

And that’s also what forum members have caught. A Sphinn submission points to a blog post where it’s obvious that I’m not the only one who was a victim of the Cuil spam. Even WebmasterWorld forum members are a bit shocked.

On my flickr screenshot (click the image above for the link), Brad from Cuil writes the following:

And just as promised, the Cuil team has written a blog post to publicly inform the community that it’s not them either.

Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld and Sphinn.