"We're very pleased that we actually got a search engine launched" - Sanjeev Singh

Other than saying they didn't see any technical problems before launch there's not much detail about what actually went wrong (some of which are still being worked on). - Sanjeev Singh

Mostly, they claim they didn't anticipate all the attention and they were hoping for a quiet little launch. - ⓞnor

"they claim they didn't anticipate all the attention and they were hoping for a quiet little launch" TechCrunch writes that Cuil "pre-briefed every blogger and tech journalist on the planet" about their engine (quote from http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...). This led to, for instance, this preview at Techcrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... . Not sure who exactly they send their press release to, though. - Philipp Lenssen