Cuil Speaks

Below are the first two clips from my exclusive post-launch sit down with Cuil founders Tom Costello and Anna Patterson. Also, it's exhibit A of why I have grown to love video as a reporter. Anna and Tom not only give an honest and direct answers to the questions surrounding their launch and the value of their search engine, but you see them as real human beings who are utterly resilient in the fire storm, but clearly there's also some hurt there.

Part of the problem with the blogosphere is a certain lack of humanity-- particularly amid anonymous commenters. To read the blogs, Cuil's founders went from geniuses to the anti-Christ. They become, at best, symbols for things, two-dimensional representations of entrepreneurs. But to see them on camera shows you them. You may not like them, and may hate their service, but at least you react to them as a people and not a printed headline on a screen. We've got five segments of the interview running today and I'll post the last three when they become live. Enjoy!