[Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL

[Sidey, Carolyne]

I think   www.searchme.com   IS cool. 


Carolyne Sidey 
Manager, XRCC Library 
Xerox Research Centre of Canada 

csidey at xrcc.xeroxlabs.com


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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Dan Lester
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Subject: [Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL

 
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 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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