[LINK] Cuil search engine odd images

[Bruce Morrison]

This may be of interest
Yahoo Exec Makes Yuil: Looks Like Cuil, With Better Results
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/30/its-yuil-cuils-good-looks-with-better-results/

as well as
Wow, How Did Cuil Get So Much Publicity on Day 1?!
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cuil_publicity.php

Cheers
Bruce

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Ivan Trundle <ivan at itrundle.com> wrote:
> 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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