[LINK] Cuil search engine odd images

Ivan Trundle ivan at itrundle.com
Thu Jul 31 10:33:32 AEST 2008


Good thing that your name isn't Jonathan Grattage ...

(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/29/cuil_launch/)

On 31/07/2008, at 9:27 AM, Tom Worthington 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.
>
>
>
> Tom Worthington FACS HLM tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
> Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd            ABN: 17 088 714 309
> PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617                      http://www.tomw.net.au/
> Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
>
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