[LINK] Cuil search engine odd images

[Scott Howard]

It's guessing.

I did the same a few days ago (well, searching for me not you :) ) and it
managed to come up with an article regarding a completely different Scott
Howard, with the "picture" next to the article being a photo I had taken of
Machu Picchu.

The photo and the article had nothing in common other than the fact that the
Bio for the person in the article (not me) had the same name as the person
who took the photo (me).

  Scott.


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Tom Worthington <
Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:

> I tried the Cuil search engine <http://www.cuil.com/>. While the web
> pages found were okay, the images returned were a little odd. As an
> example, I searched for my own name
> <http://www.cuil.com/search?q=tom+worthington>. The web pages found
> were as expected: my home page, bio, some things I had written. But
> the photos did not seem to match the web pages.
>
> Alongside my home page was a photo of some houses. Bedise something I
> wrote for the ACS was an image about "Campus Security". Beside
> "Photos of Tom Worthington" was a picture I took of a church. There
> was a cartoon next to "Some services provided", a picture of an organ
> keyboard next to something on e-document production and so on.
>
> When I repeated the search I got different web pages but the same images.
>
> Also I could find no mention on the Cuil site of how they intend to
> fund their service. But there is a blank column on the side of the
> page which looks like it is reserved to put ads in. But then perhaps
> this should all be seen of a sign of faith having Dot.Com boom type
> startups in recessionary times.
>
>
>
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