[Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL

[B.G. Sloan]

I did a search on my name as well. The thing that strikes me as the oddest are the images attached to the entries. Two photos were of men who were not me, and a third was a woman who is not me. 

And there is a wiki biography about me...I am the subject of this wiki entry...and the accompanying photo is of a half dozen municipal mass-transit-type buses lined up in a parking lot!?!

Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates


--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Dan Lester <dan at riverofdata.com> wrote:

> From: Dan Lester <dan at riverofdata.com>
> Subject: [Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL
> To: "web4lib at webjunction.org" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 1:19 PM
> 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
> 
> -- 
> The road goes on forever and the party never ends. REK, Jr.
> Dan Lester, Boise, ID  
> 
> 
> 
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