Language Log's Mark Liberman takes a swing at Cuil--the search engine and the name. Liberman consulted one Irish-language expert who said cuil means "enmity" or "resentment" (a sentiment shared by many Cuil users on launch day) or, alternatively, "fly."
I like commenter Jean-Sébastien Gerard's etymology:
Well, cuil is a possible descendent of the nahuatl word cuitlatl ("excrement"), which has a variant cuitl in possessives, but as amusing as it is, I doubt it is accurate (and I can't guarantee the evolution is in any way accurate).
P.S. See updates to my previous post, and the comments thread below it, for more linguistic give and take.
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