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September 22, 2004 01:12 PM
Broken: Brill.com search results
Ed Falcone writes:
I work in a public library, and our staff went to Brill.com to help a patron do some personal finance research. On their home page, put the term "bond funds" in the Explore box, and press the button. Notice the nasty language that comes back in the first few results. Please excuse me if I don't send you a screen shot.
What's really broken here is that Brill has enough editors to pull the comments that contain the offensive titles, but the search results view of threads still shows rejected posts.
As of 7:30pm Eastern, I don't see any bad language in the search results. I tried both bond funds and "bond funds." Maybe they rebuild the search index once a day?
This is also a terrible "concept" search engine - Excite for Web Servers. And it has significant vunerabilities (see http://searchtools.com/tools/excite.html for details). I didn't know there were any still running. Says some very bad things about Brill.com.
Porn is taking over lots of legitmate stuff on the net, between that and regular spam,and hackers it's going to make the net worthless some day.
Another thing that's broken with brill.com is that the little weather applet on their front page blocks keyboard input until you click somewhere in the page. Go to the site and try pressing ALT to access your web browser's menus or F6 to go to your web browser's location bar. The applet just eats your input.
What's really broken here is that Brill has enough editors to pull the comments that contain the offensive titles, but the search results view of threads still shows rejected posts.
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The search results are from the Brill.com message board which is an open medium for posting. The messages are really pornographic spam posted to the board in the hopes of generating customes. This is a problem on many popular web boards and needs the board admins or moderators to stay on top of it.
Brill.com have actually deleted the offensive spam messages. What they have failed to do, though, is to purge them from the index so they still show up as search results.
Posted by: Carlos Gomez at September 22, 2004 02:00 PM