Billed as a potential Google killer and dubbed the “world's biggest search engine”, the initial response has been lukewarm, with mixed reviews from many of the industry.

It certainly didn’t help that the site went down shortly after launch and that general first impressions certainly haven’t put Cuil in the same league as Google (or Yahoo and MSN for that matter).

The company's shareholder meeting on Friday was, as Bob Keefe of Cox News Service put it, "rather ho-hum":

The desire for online businesses to become bigger and better inevitably affects their approach to redesign. There’s a huge temptation to introduce the latest whiz bang functionality and super cool design which will appeal to a whole new generation of customers.

So without further ado, here are the stories that I found interesting this past week.

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They need to buy more of the startups that VC firms like his have backed.

Thus, this week's Web Week in Review is dedicated to the software company everybody loves to hate.

Hype, in one sense, is the irrational raising of expectations to a point beyond what is realistic and/or healthy.

The company, which has already raised more than $350m in equity financing from investors such as Microsoft and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, says that the money will be used "entirely for servers."