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rowan · 06-10-2010, 05:53 PM

A couple of years ago cuil.com launched to tremendous fanfare and hype, with many saying it could be a Google Killer. People soon realised that the results returned by this new search engine were not up to par, and images displayed with results were seemingly random, often having nothing to do with the search topic or site in the results.

Now they've sunk to a new low, launching an "automated encyclopedia" which is basically a huge site scraper and markov generator that puts out gibberish.

http://www.cpedia.com/

Here's the first few sentences on the entry for Michael Jackson...

Inglethorp herself aware of be able to count michael jackson in the clouds. [1.1]

Rawlings I reflected was very much the sort of storage michael jackson in the clouds and violently as if it trim because't he thought that would have been got silently to my bad no doubt at all in my mind. [1.2]

I listen michael jackson songs to Jolly No morphine left What jadkson martina cole's the take eongs is to do I nodded my head and he shook his. [1.3]

http://www.cpedia.com/wiki?q=michael+jackson

The concept shows promise - grab information about a topic from multiple websites and try to create a single article about it - but the current implementation is horrendous. This is pure garbage.

06-10-2010, 05:53 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	Remember Cuil the "Google Killer"? They've launched the worlds biggest scraper site A couple of years ago cuil.com launched to tremendous fanfare and hype, with many saying it could be a Google Killer. People soon realised that the results returned by this new search engine were not up to par, and images displayed with results were seemingly random, often having nothing to do with the search topic or site in the results. Now they've sunk to a new low, launching an "automated encyclopedia" which is basically a huge site scraper and markov generator that puts out gibberish. http://www.cpedia.com/ Here's the first few sentences on the entry for Michael Jackson... Inglethorp herself aware of be able to count michael jackson in the clouds. [1.1] Rawlings I reflected was very much the sort of storage michael jackson in the clouds and violently as if it trim because't he thought that would have been got silently to my bad no doubt at all in my mind. [1.2] I listen michael jackson songs to Jolly No morphine left What jadkson martina cole's the take eongs is to do I nodded my head and he shook his. [1.3] http://www.cpedia.com/wiki?q=michael+jackson The concept shows promise - grab information about a topic from multiple websites and try to create a single article about it - but the current implementation is horrendous. This is pure garbage.