[Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL

[Pat Rapp]

I did a search for my library, Fairport Public Library, on cuil and our
website did not come up -- despite the fact that our url is
fairportlibrary.org. I searched through 14 pages of results before giving
up. Seems odd that all those results would come up ahead of our url.

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Edelblute
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I did a search of my name under Google and found several links with me in it
(which I find a bit scary).  I have not had found myself under cuil, but
have not looked very deeply either. 


Thomas Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Dan Lester
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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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