« Metaverse By The Spoonful: Augmented Reality Displays Avatars On Paddle | Main | Metaverse As Visual Database: Tokyo Professor Creates Impressive 3D Image Display In Second Life »

Monday, July 28, 2008

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

Katharine Berry

From a smilarly vain point of view, Google ranks me higher for "Katharine Berry" than Cuil does, which returns a load of books by Katharine Berry Judson - despite the categories it suggests looking in being "Second Life", "Virtual Worlds", "Virtual World Communities", etc. Also, the results for Katharine Berry aren't actually my sites, they're articles about me.

From a practical point of view, "Due to excessive load, our servers didn't return results."

Google very, very rarely says that. If ever. I can't get any other answer right now.

Kit Meredith

Well, it sure looks pretty! But I'm not so confident about the search engine itself. After all, if you search for "Kit Meredith," you only get 28 results, and my blog isn't even in them. That's what I call "epic fail"! ;)

Also, when you search "second life" like you mentioned, Hamlet, the result for secondlife.com inexplicably comes up with an image for EVE Online next to it. Can't imagine the Lindens are too happy about that one.

Cuil might have a future, but they have some kinks to iron out (and some Web to crawl) before it's ready for prime time.

Jacek Antonelli

I'm definitely giggling that the image next to the link to Linden Lab's web site is from EVE Online. Where'd that come from?

Searching for "jacek antonelli", Cuil comes up mostly with comments I've made on other people's blogs, JIRA issues I've filed, and -- rather creepily -- a SLURL to my old home in SL. It's only on the second page that it has a link to my blog; and for some reason it chose to use the tentacle ribbon image that I removed from my sidebar several months ago.

But, y'know, aside from the images not being appropriate, and the results not being relevant, it's nice...

Logansan Oh

Boo...not one result for me on Cuil. And as a side note, the pics listed next to the results are "not" filtered in anyway, as a search for me returned a picture of "Naked Women" in the top 20 results. Not going to be very child-friendly...as if a child (or anyone for that matter) will be able to resist clicking on the nude pic if its in the top results!!

hehe.

T_S_Kimball

Agreed to the above comments.

Searching for Alan's name required it in quotes for even relevant output. The pics appear to be 'sub searches' based on the title (which make them very wrong all the time). And sites like T_S_Journal (an Uru 'IC only' story site) show data for an earlier version of its feed, which no longer exist as of six months ago.

You Lose, Cuil. Good Day, sir...

--T_S_Kimball

Gaynor Gritzi

My blog just got its first hit from Cuil yesterday.

I did a search for Face Lights Second Life, and was pleased to see that I own half the first page of results. But none of the images that appear alongside the results are mine. No idea where they've come from, and clicking them only leads to my blog, so what's happening there?

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment

Your Information

(Name is required. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.)

Making a Metaverse That Matters Wagner James Au ad
Please buy my book!
Thumb Wagner James Au Metaverse book
Wagner James "Hamlet" Au
Wagner James Au AAE Speakers Metaverse
Request me as a speaker!
VirtualWorldsMuseum_New_World_Notes
Bad-Unicorn Funny Second Life items
Dutchie Waterland House slideshow 01112023
Juicybomb_EEP ad
Making of Second Life 20th anniversary Wagner James Au Thumb
my site ... ... ...

PC/Mac readers recommend for SL:

Classic New World Notes stories:

Sander's Villa: The Man Who Gave His Father A Second Life (2011)

What Rebecca Learned By Being A Second Life Man (2010)

Charles Bristol's Metaverse Blues: 87 Year Old Bluesman Becomes Avatar-Based Musician In Second Life (2009)

Linden Limit Libertarianism: Metaverse community management illustrates the problems with laissez faire governance (2008)

The Husband That Eshi Made: Metaverse artist, grieving for her dead husband, recreates him as an avatar (2008)

Labor Union Protesters Converge On IBM's Metaverse Campus: Leaders Claim Success, 1850 Total Attendees (Including Giant Banana & Talking Triangle) (2007)

All About My Avatar: The story behind amazing strange avatars (2007)

Fighting the Front: When fascists open an HQ in Second Life, chaos and exploding pigs ensue (2007)

Copying a Controversy: Copyright concerns come to the Metaverse via... the CopyBot! (2006)

The Penguin & the Zookeeper: Just another unlikely friendship formed in The Metaverse (2006)

"—And He Rezzed a Crooked House—": Mathematician makes a tesseract in the Metaverse — watch the videos! (2006)

Guarding Darfur: Virtual super heroes rally to protect a real world activist site (2006)

The Skin You're In: How virtual world avatar options expose real world racism (2006)

Making Love: When virtual sex gets real (2005)

Watching the Detectives: How to honeytrap a cheater in the Metaverse (2005)

The Freeform Identity of Eboni Khan: First-hand account of the Black user experience in virtual worlds (2005)

Man on Man and Woman on Woman: Just another gender-bending avatar love story, with a twist (2005)

The Nine Souls of Wilde Cunningham: A collective of severely disabled people share the same avatar (2004)

Falling for Eddie: Two shy artists divided by an ocean literally create a new life for each other (2004)

War of the Jessie Wall: Battle over virtual borders -- and real war in Iraq (2003)

Home for the Homeless: Creating a virtual mansion despite the most challenging circumstances (2003)

Newstex_Author_Badge-Color 240px
JuicyBomb_NWN5 SL blog
Ava Delaney SL Blog
Ava