[Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL

[Cary Gordon]

Ha. I did a search for "cuil" and didn't get their site.

A seach for "google" on Google delivers exactly what I would expect.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Pat Rapp
<prapp at mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us> wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Edelblute
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 3:51 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Dan Lester
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:20 AM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> 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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Cary Gordon
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