The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38609   Message #2401195
Posted By: Snuffy
30-Jul-08 - 09:33 AM
Thread Name: Tech: New Search Engine
Subject: RE: Tech: New Search Engine
A brief play with it yesterday was not impressive: most searches seemed to dish up exactly the same information over and over again, word for word, from several different sites.

And much of what it did find turned out to be very old stuff indeed: my search for pubs in Stratford-uon-Avon yielded a load of stuff only peripherally relevant to pubs and Stratford, and a solitary pub website - last updated in February 1997!!

And it appears assign a graphic to the topic without much regard to relevance: a search for LNWR 0-8-0s (English steam locos ca 1900-1910) produced a picture of an American diesel, while the Stratford 1997 pub had not a photo of the pub, but a clip from Last Tango and Paris showing Brando & Schneider with their kit off! (The pub was the Queen's Head, btw)