The Top Search Result on Cuil…Properazzi!
My friend Jeremie Berrebi let me know a few days ago that the much-hyped new search engine “Cuil” was returning a Properazzi page as the top result for the keyword search, “Cuil” 
He even posted this on his blog (in French).
Funny enough, Techcrunch picked up on this and even included in their post a nice screenshot that has a fairly prominent mention of our name.
Considering that getting 125×125 pixels on Techcrunch is worth $12,000 per month, I’d say that visual mention of us is worth at least a few hundred bucks of TC front-page pixel space
I’d love to say we did it on purpose as part of a diabolical plan to guerrilla-market our way into TC, but this was just serendipitous- so, thanks to team Cuil!!
(by the way- greetings from sunny California, where I’m taking a week off to tour the coast with a group of friends. It’s amazing here!)
when will properazzi stop using the redirect links and spend some time to create real link tracking without harming the people it scrapes from.
I wouldnt have even noticed or worried about listings being scraped from my site if I had not been searching google looking for links to my site that might be considered spam.
Now I have a voice in my head that wants to take properazzi down (I am not going to go the effort, FYI)
Just wanted you guys to see what kind of sentiment has the potential to rise against you if you don’t stay careful not to bite the hand that feeds you.
Fix it, if you need help, email me
Best of luck
Mark Theknife
August 14, 2008 at 8:42 am