Topic: Is Cuil Killing Websites?

[sam]

An anonymous tipster wrote to us this morning to tell us that Cuil, the ill-fated “Google Killer,” has unleashed its Twiceler indexing bot on websites across the globe and in the process, has brought many sites down.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/is-cuil-killing-websites/

[Clive]

That's very worrying Sam.  Strangley I was unable to access a couple of Websites on Sunday and now wonder if that might have been the cause?

[sam]

possible...

[Simon]

Looks like it's killed that link as well!

Error 503 Service Unavailable

Error talking to backend
Guru Meditation:

XID: 1270331722
Varnish

[Clive]

Can anyone access tinyurl .com ?    I've had to insert a space to allow the post. 

[Simon]

Isn't that a blacklisted url, Clive?  I seem to recall Tony mentioning it, but there's not much we can do about it.

[David]

I can access the tiny url .com and the link is fine for me  

Dont understand fully the content of this thread but followed the link and also entered the name mentioned NP  

Update no I had to spacebar the tiny,came up as blacklisted site

[Clive]

I know that the forum software blacklists it but I cannot access it at all anymore.  I'm switching to snipurl. com anyway because I think it seems better.  Oh, that's also blacklisted!   

[Simon]

You can't fool SMF, Clive!  Or, to be precise, as someone would no doubt point out, the Spam Blacklist mod. 

[Clive]