{"id":232,"date":"2008-07-28T02:20:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T06:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2008-07-28T02:20:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T06:20:04","slug":"cuilcom-search-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2008-07-28\/cuilcom-search-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"cuil.com search ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was intrigued to read about a new search engine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuil.com\/\">cuil.com<\/a>, which is being launched by former Google employees. So I tried it out by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuil.com\/search?q=xulrunner&#038;pi=0&#038;sl=long\">searching for XULRunner<\/a>. The top hits were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/XULRunner\n<li>http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/XULRunner:Roadmap\n<li>http:\/\/blogs.acceleration.net\/ryan\/archive\/2005\/05\/06\/1073.aspx\n<li>http:\/\/chatzilla.rdmsoft.com\/xulrunner\/\n<li>http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/XUL:Xul_Runner\n<li>http:\/\/developer.yahoo.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/flickr-uploadr-open-source-xulrunner.html\n<li>http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2007-05-15\/xulrunner-what-we-are-doing\/\n<li>http:\/\/www.songbirdnest.com\/node\/1771\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were also suggested &#8220;categories&#8221;:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Mozilla<\/p>\n<dd>Mozilla Foundation, SpiderMonkey, MozillaZine, Mitchell Baker, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Corporation, Mozilla Public License, Bugzilla<\/p>\n<dt>Mozilla Developers<\/p>\n<dd>Asa Dotzler, Mitchell Baker, Daniel Glazman, Window Snyder, Brendan Eich, Mike Shaver, Ben Goodger, Tristan Nitot<\/p>\n<dt>Mozilla Extensions<\/p>\n<dd>ChatZilla, Adblock, Greasemonkey, CustomizeGoogle, DOM Inspector, Venkman, Flashblock, ColorZilla<\/p>\n<dt>Netscape<\/p>\n<dd>Mozilla, Netscape Navigator, Netscape Browser, The Book of Mozilla, Daniel Glazman, Ben Goodger, Netscape Communicator, Tristan Nitot<\/p>\n<dt>W3C Standards<\/p>\n<dd>MathML, Resource Description Framework, XSL Transformations, Document Object Model, Cascading Style Sheets, Scalable Vector Graphics, XHTML, &#8230; (hidden)\n<\/dl>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit disturbed by the pattern here: a search for XULRunner turns up interesting results, but the primary page on XULRunner (http:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/docs\/XULRunner) is not present. Suggested terms for Mozilla has interesting results, but the most important (Firefox) is not present. The suggested categories are interesting, but the sub-results aren&#8217;t relevant to the specific topic I searched for: what I really want is &#8220;Mozilla Developers who do XULRunner&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Is cuil.com built on a strategy of &#8220;list all the search results except for the one I really wanted&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and a search for &#8220;tamarin javascript&#8221; turns up 0 results&#8230; something must be fishy with their search index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was intrigued to read about a new search engine, cuil.com, which is being launched by former Google employees. So I tried it out by searching for XULRunner. The top hits were: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/XULRunner http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/XULRunner:Roadmap http:\/\/blogs.acceleration.net\/ryan\/archive\/2005\/05\/06\/1073.aspx http:\/\/chatzilla.rdmsoft.com\/xulrunner\/ http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/XUL:Xul_Runner http:\/\/developer.yahoo.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/flickr-uploadr-open-source-xulrunner.html http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2007-05-15\/xulrunner-what-we-are-doing\/ http:\/\/www.songbirdnest.com\/node\/1771 There were also suggested &#8220;categories&#8221;: Mozilla Mozilla Foundation, SpiderMonkey, MozillaZine, Mitchell Baker, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Corporation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133,134],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","tag-cuil","tag-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}