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I always feel that it’s a little unfair to judge a website by its first week out of the gate. Having start-up experience myself, I can understand how hard it is to launch a website, deal with exaggerated traffic, and the typical glitches that come with the territory.

With a little over a week of operation under this potential Google-killer’s belt, I thought it was time for me to weigh in on Cuil.com.

Like most sites aiming to be more 3.0, Cuil revels in the less is more homepage. With a simple black background with blue and grey accents, the typical search form is present. One major thing I noticed was the switch in color after you type in a query. That is, the site shifts from a black background to white containing search results. Google, Yahoo and MSN Live Search take a more visually cohesive route offering a white to white turnover.

Another big difference is the stacking of search results. I am not sure if this is a new website trend, but Cuil delivers information horizontally. In an earlier blog post about new micro-blogging site Plurk, I also noted this flip in expression. Personally, I like my content vertical and linear based. I think trying to get people to get into a different allocation of web real estate is a challenge for any user.

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If you’ve seen Lars and the Real Girl, you will probably understand the simile I am going to lay out in this blog post. If not, I’ll try to make it so you get it as well [but there may be some spoilers].

In the film, Lars Lindstrom (Ryan Gosling) finds himself with a Real Doll, but treats her as if she is in fact a living, breathing human being. According to Lars, she is Brazilian-handicapped-community service aficionado named Bianca. Lars clearly is very lonely and suffering from some very genuine feelings misplacement. He has a loving brother and sister-in-law, but he lacks true intimacy in his life.

Lars may have some creepy attributes, but he displays such a common human condition; the desire to be wanted, and furthermore, needed by someone. Bianca is in a wheelchair and needs to be taken care of, catered to. This, in turn, is what Lars needs.
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It seems as if I have been blogging forever, but, alas it’s only been a year (well, almost. Here is my first blog post). 68 articles later, I can’t express enough how much nehatiwari.com has become an integral part of my life. The outlet of writing about tech, relationships, and media plus reading what you guys think has truly been priceless!

Along the way, there have also been a lot of iterations of my moniker dot com. Now with over 1,000 page views per week I am proud to announce this latest design. My dedicated webmaster, Andrew Mager, worked with me extensively to make my website what I wanted at every turn. I am really happy with it, but if you have suggestions, please do drop me a comment. As my fellow Wordpressers know, every website is always a work in progress.

Anyways, thank you all for listening to me vent for the last year. I really do appreciate those of you who check back often, and take the effort of commenting. I’ve learned a lot from blogging and have enjoyed hearing diverse viewpoints. As the Joker said to Batman, “You complete me”–Thank you all.