[LINK] News item - Cuil odd images a bug

[Sylvano]

Linkers,

it would seem it is a bug...

<quote>
Thanks to quirks in Cuil's search algorithm, search results of some brands
are popping up with pictures of competing or even irrelevant brands.

Cuil Vice President of Communications Vince Sollitto just told me Cuil's
engineers are working on the problem. Sollitto indicated that the bug was
a bump in the road of the company's challenge in trying to provide an
image next to every search result.
</quote>

more at:
 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Apps/Cuil-Search-Engine-Triggers-Image-Concerns/

Sylvano

On Thu, July 31, 2008 9:59 am, Sylvano wrote:
>
> On Thu, July 31, 2008 9:49 am, Scott Howard wrote:
>> 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).
>
>
> The best answer I found, so far, is in their FAQ:
>  http://www.cuil.com/info/faqs/
>
> <quote>
> 7. You have images beside your results. How do you pick which pictures to
> use?
>
> We know from our research that people can make better and quicker
> decisions about relevance and quality when they can see an image from the
> website. We do our best to take images from Web pages that accurately
> reflect the content of the website. Many websites are full of images, so
> we use advanced algorithms to determine the best image to show the user.
> </quote>
>
> It is a little vague, but seems to suggest that they will source images
> from anywhere - even other websites - to 'enrich' the results.
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