[Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL

[Stevens, Julieanne H.]

Same sort of results here, too. Slow servers, which I am attributing to the demand caused by the news stories. (if there were no interest in a new Google,  why this level of hype and interest?)   I answered that question with my appreciation of no advertising. (though advertising is useful when I'm shopping...)

The page is organized and more professional looking than Google. Does this matter ? I dunno. I do like the more professional presentation; it gives the information a little façade of credibility.

When I ran a search, it seems to be searching deeper into the web. It pulled pages that technically no longer exist when I ran some web pages I took down years ago. Is that worth anything ?

(I just got a message that they are adding more servers as we all type:
"We'll be back soon...
Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity.
Thanks for your patience."



Julieanne Hartman Stevens
Reference and  Electronic Resources Librarian
Stetson University College of Law
Law Library
1401 61st Street South
Gulfport, Florida 33707
727-562-7304
Internal extension: 7304
jhsteven at law.stetson.edu
"Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?" Neil Gaiman

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Peter MacDonald
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:56 PM
To: Dan Lester
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL

I searched for my name on www.cuil.com too and found a biography with my 
picture attached to it, but the biography has nothing to do with me 
except for the name. It's about someone else with my name.

I wonder how these biographies get written?

Peter MacDonald


Dan Lester wrote:
>  http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080727.wcuil0728/BNStory/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
>
>   


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