Things have not gone well for the new search engine Cuil since its launch, and its creators must be desperately thinking of ways to get increased website traffic.

While still coming top in a search for "cuil" in Google, sites deriding Cuil may soon have higher search engine rankings.

Abuse for Cuil has been coming from all quarters - the relevance of its results are poor, its claim to index more pages than Google has been derided (as the amount of pages is meaningless, it's the relevance that's important), its servers kept crashing on launch and even its name has been the subject of debate.

Press releases said that it is an Old Irish word meaning "knowledge", but the press has had difficulty finding an expert who agrees with this.

"I am unaware myself of the meaning 'knowledge' being with the word 'cuil' in Irish," Stiofan O Deorain an Irish expert, told PC World.

Apparently the word actually means corner, as in "a thing Cuil find themselves backed into after a poor launch of their product".

Hitwise are now ranking the site as the 34th most visited search engine.

But does this mean that no-one can challenge Google's dominance, or could a new company with a decent product take on the big guys?

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