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How Cuil Is The SEO Industry?

Philipp Lenssen’s The World According to Cuil blog post inspired me to take snapshots of how Cuil, the new search engine, matches up the names of our industry to pictures.

Here’s Danny Sullivan’s Wikipedia article, but showing a picture of Danny Sullivan the race car driver:

Cuil Danny Sullivan


This is my, Barry Schwartz’s, search blog, but this is a picture of the psychologist:

Cuil Barry Schwartz

A search for Greg Sterling (yes, an editor here), shows a picture of Chris Sherman (an editor here):

Cuil Greg Sterling

Vanessa Fox, the avatar?

Cuil Vanessa Fox

Okay, now for some funny ones.

Rand Fishkin looking like Google’s Matt Cutts:

Cuil Rand Fishkin

Tamar Weinberg looking a lot like Danny Sullivan in a girl’s tank top:

Cuil Tamar Weinberg

David Naylor… No comment:

Cuil David Naylor

Andrew Goodman escaped from prison?

Cuil Andrew Goodman

Tim Mayer of Yahoo now a referee?

Cuil Tim Mayer

Our friend, Gary Price, looking extremely gray:

Cuil Gary Price

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About the author

Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.