Comments on: Not so Cuil http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/08/12/not-so-cuil/ Blogging in the real world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steve Cassidy http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/08/12/not-so-cuil/comment-page-1/#comment-5397 Steve Cassidy Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:45:19 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=2847#comment-5397 Well, I gave your site the same search string ("lotus notes mail rules") and the second link was mildly useful, the fourth came from the authoritative source (the IBM Developer resource) - but that dire page of pointless gripes is still on the first page! I'm sure it's algorithmically hard to evaluate the relevance of a technical source: but this is bad news for abstract researchers - and I should add, good news for analysts like me. We still have a use... Well, I gave your site the same search string (”lotus notes mail rules”) and the second link was mildly useful, the fourth came from the authoritative source (the IBM Developer resource) – but that dire page of pointless gripes is still on the first page!

I’m sure it’s algorithmically hard to evaluate the relevance of a technical source: but this is bad news for abstract researchers – and I should add, good news for analysts like me. We still have a use…

]]> By: Chris http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/08/12/not-so-cuil/comment-page-1/#comment-5328 Chris Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:55:24 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=2847#comment-5328 Cuil is definitely going for it, but it's hard to imagine them doing anything but incremental changes to what Google's done. And even that would take years of effort. Me.dium.com has taken a different tack. We have a full web index, but we change the results based on the surfing activity of our user base (now over 2,000,000). It's in alpha, but I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. http://me.dium.com/search Cuil is definitely going for it, but it’s hard to imagine them doing anything but incremental changes to what Google’s done. And even that would take years of effort.

Me.dium.com has taken a different tack. We have a full web index, but we change the results based on the surfing activity of our user base (now over 2,000,000). It’s in alpha, but I’d be curious to hear your thoughts. http://me.dium.com/search

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