Tuesday the 29th of July, 2008

Sending out the search parties

Posted at 1:33:57pm UTC
8 more rants down there!

I just read elly’s latest post about how the new search engine Cuil, is a little “wrong in the head” when it comes to ordering search results. So I decided to give it a shot myself, just to see what it’s like for me.

Google

  1. Site home page. As expected :)
  2. My profile on MyGamerCard.net
  3. My 360voice blog
  4. My Rooster Teeth profile
  5. My Twitter
  6. My Bebo
  7. My Wikipedia user page
  8. My Windows Live Space
  9. My YouTube channel
  10. My WordPress.com tag? - WTF?

OK, the results are quite good, most of the hits are sites that I use regularly, or are updated regularly - only #4, #8 I really don’t use anymore, and #10 really shouldn’t be there.

Cuil

This is where things get a little odd… Since I’m also not sure what order of impotance the results on Cuil are because of the layout, I’ve set the results for 2 colums, and am listing the left-hand column first.

  1. A non-existent article about me on the Halo 3 part of Halowiki - WTFH?
  2. Site homepage
  3. My Twitter
  4. My blog’s archive for July 9th, 2007?
  5. My blog’s archive for the “cod4″ tag??
  6. My Blogger’s Choice Awards profile
  7. My user page for the Halo 2 part of Halowiki???
  8. My user talk page for the Halo 2 part of Halowiki?????
  9. My blog’s archive for February 2008???????
  10. My blog’s archive for the “games-soc” tag????????
  11. My blog’s archive for the “ebay” tag??????????

OK, this is officially fucked up… Let’s go see where some of the better ranked results on Google show up on Cuil…

  • MGC profile - Not in the top 100
  • 360voice blog - Not in the top 100
  • Bebo - Not in the top 100
  • Wikipedia User page - 53rd… not wait, that’s a Wikipedia mirror site!
  • YouTube channel - Not in the top 100

So as you can see, Cuil obviously has some issues with the ranking of results, if some of the best results from Google don’t even show in the first 10 pages!

I think I’ll be sticking with Google until they can get this mess sorted out…

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8 More Rants

  1. elly parker ranted:Reply to this comment
    Tuesday the 29th of July, 2008 at 2:25:31pm UTC

    Nice post, between this and them displaying incorrect screenshots / pictures beside results (i.e. ones from completely different domains), they’re not off to the best start.

    See this too (very very NSFW!): http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/29/cuil_launch/

  2. TheChrisD ranted:Reply to this comment
    Tuesday the 29th of July, 2008 at 2:29:28pm UTC

    8O Holy crap. At least the images that were going with my results weren’t that bad - rather just a random image picked from the page.

  3. Tuesday the 29th of July, 2008 at 6:25:10pm UTC

    I heard about Cuil yesterday and tried it today…it sucks. Enough said. :-)

  4. TheChrisD ranted:Reply to this comment
    Tuesday the 29th of July, 2008 at 6:27:28pm UTC

    The fact than an Irish word is being used to represent a really badly operating piece of Internet technology is making me regret being Irish :(

  5. Tuesday the 29th of July, 2008 at 7:03:23pm UTC

    Cuil is an Irish word? What does it mean?

  6. Tuesday the 29th of July, 2008 at 7:52:28pm UTC

    Cuil is the name of GAA summer camps now. That’s what I was going for y’know.

    It links to a 6/10 score for my blog and nothing else so I dislike it.

  7. TheChrisD ranted:Reply to this comment
    Wednesday the 30th of July, 2008 at 9:43:46am UTC

    @AdjustantReflex: I really don’t know what it means in the modern day, but apparently it was an old Irish word for knowledge back in the days where there were dots instead of h’s and other things.

    @B’dum B’dum B’dum: Aren’t they called “Cúl Camps”? Either way, they all sound like the same thing…

  8. Wednesday the 30th of July, 2008 at 3:47:14pm UTC

    @TheChrisD: Oh, I see.

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