Not true.  There are bloggers out there trying to dig stuff up, and if Cuil suddenly became good, you can bet they'd love to report that story and you would've heard about it.  You might've even heard about it from me, because for many months I would type stuff into Cuil just to see what I'd get.<p>But you never heard anything because they never did anything worth talking about (relative to the other players in the field of course...)