Remember Cuil? Yea, the Google competitor. Well, if you do remember them you are cool, if not – no worries, they are offline and you didn’t miss much.

TechCrunch broke the story that Cuil went offline and later noted it had to do with a failed acquisition.

There is some discussion around this search engine going offline. We have threads at Google Blogoscoped Forums, Search Engine Watch and WebmasterWorld.

The Search Engine Watch thread has one member saying:

Did you ever use Cuil? I didn’t, except for a few searches when they first launched.

Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped Forums, Search Engine Watch and WebmasterWorld.