Re: [WikiEN-l] robotically generated content

2010-04-17 Thread William Pietri
On 04/16/2010 05:19 PM, David Gerard wrote: And the Cuil search engine is still the shining example of why Cuil Theory exists. It's comically awful and is most useful to point the kids at and tell them Google got popular by not sucking like that. It is true that failure is important to future

Re: [WikiEN-l] robotically generated content

2010-04-16 Thread Del Buono, Matthew Paul
But it would seem the technology is still some way off. I don't know. I think I have found a good use for it. http://cpedia.com/search?q=wikipedia+talk This way, I can monitor all the talk pages I usually watch without having to go to them individually! -- Shirik

Re: [WikiEN-l] robotically generated content

2010-04-16 Thread Emily Monroe
I find Cpedia rather...hilarious, for some reason. I don't see the point to it, otherwise. Emily On Apr 15, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Del Buono, Matthew Paul wrote: But it would seem the technology is still some way off. I don't know. I think I have found a good use for it.

Re: [WikiEN-l] robotically generated content

2010-04-16 Thread David Gerard
On 16 April 2010 20:25, Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com wrote: I find Cpedia rather...hilarious, for some reason. I don't see the point to it, otherwise. You'll love this blog entry: http://www.cuil.com/info/blog/2010/04/13/cpedia-and-its-detractors He fails to realise the *only* people

Re: [WikiEN-l] robotically generated content

2010-04-16 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:07 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: You'll love this blog entry: http://www.cuil.com/info/blog/2010/04/13/cpedia-and-its-detractors He's not too far off the mark with some of his comments in that blog; it's an unfortunate side effect of the style of

Re: [WikiEN-l] robotically generated content

2010-04-16 Thread William Pietri
On 04/16/2010 03:09 PM, Nathan wrote: http://www.cuil.com/info/blog/2010/04/13/cpedia-and-its-detractors He's not too far off the mark with some of his comments in that blog; it's an unfortunate side effect of the style of communication the Internet encourages that experimentation

Re: [WikiEN-l] robotically generated content

2010-04-16 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:29 PM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote: I think there are ways to signal that you are doing something as an experiment and with the requisite humility. A good example is Google Sets, which is part of Google Labs: http://labs.google.com/sets One of their

Re: [WikiEN-l] robotically generated content

2010-04-16 Thread David Gerard
On 17 April 2010 01:05, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: That is a fair and thoughtful indictment of their approach. I have no particular problem with the other comments in this thread either -- they weren't all substantial criticism, but that's fine as far as it goes. A lot of other

[WikiEN-l] robotically generated content

2010-04-14 Thread WereSpielChequers
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