At cuil we were told by mgmt of the launch date and our very talented PR team kicked into gear and generated a ton of buzz via a nationwide press tour.
Despite popular opinion, the ops team kept the site up during the massive traffic surge. A combination of poor mgmt, initial deference to user testing, last minute commits and a nasty indexing bug were the reasons the relevance sucked on day 1.
At cuil we were told by mgmt of the launch date and our very talented PR team kicked into gear and generated a ton of buzz via a nationwide press tour.
Despite popular opinion, the ops team kept the site up during the massive traffic surge. A combination of poor mgmt, initial deference to user testing, last minute commits and a nasty indexing bug were the reasons the relevance sucked on day 1.