[Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL

[Cloutman, David]

I repeated the "barack obama" search, and got results. Interestingly
enough, the misspelling "barak obama" rendered result, but under
"Explore by Category", "Nation of Islam" came up as the second category.
Perhaps the misspelled name creates hits on the anti-Obama literature.

Regardless, I didn't love it, but it's not terrible for a new piece of
software. I think they need to invest in some more servers, though. Very
slow.

- David

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David Cloutman <dcloutman at co.marin.ca.us>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library 

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Subject: [Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL



 
http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080727.wcuil0728/B
NStory/Business/?cid=al_gam_nletter_dtechal


 Has anyone else played with www.cuil.com?   (pronounced like cool)

 Supposedly more pages indexed, better, etc.  Doing a little vanity
 searching, I searched

 dan lester boise

 and found lots of stuff....well, some....almost all of it from old
 newsgroup postings from 93 and 94.  Well, I guess that's a rich
 source of fodder to build stuff up, but hardly exciting or
 convincing.

 searching for

 barack obama

 produced    "We didn't find any results for "barack obama""

 but searching obama as a single word did.

 For my entries there were a bunch of images, all completely
 irrelevant and nothing that was on any of my pages, or places where I
 was mentioned.

 Obama's images were, for the most part, relevant.

 Comments, thoughts, experiences?

 dan

-- 
The road goes on forever and the party never ends. REK, Jr.
Dan Lester, Boise, ID  




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