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farmer_Tom
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A new search engine that I built - 2/13/2005 11:14:23
Howdy,
I just finished reading this book on PHP and SQL and have built my first project, a small search engine called Haystack.TK. I just launched a few days ago at www.haystack.tk and have quite a few people coming already. I spread word around town about my project and everyone came to the library to check it out. Pa was proud as punch. Anyone who wants to put their site on my search engine free is welcome. Putting your site in is simple, all you have to do is go to www.haystack.tk
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d a v e
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RE: A new search engine that I built - 2/13/2005 15:37:12
takes far too long to load and the layout is messup in firefox
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dpf
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RE: A new search engine that I built - 2/13/2005 15:45:29
so what does your "search engine" search - i entered a few common words and got nothing?
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jclawson
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RE: A new search engine that I built - 2/16/2005 13:21:22
your search engine sucks man... its really slow... there isn't anything on it... and who is going to use a search engine that has no index and has ads.... no one...
< Message edited by Spooky -- 2/17/2005 0:37:26 >
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Reflect
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RE: A new search engine that I built - 2/16/2005 13:59:27
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your search engine sucks man
Harsh, really harsh.
I really strive to offer constructive criticism, it tends to make new people to the forum stay longer. Why not expand and explain what things struck you. This will, hopefully, make the original poster look at your comments and learn. Thus making his/her site better.
Take care,
Brian
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Giomanach
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RE: A new search engine that I built - 2/17/2005 8:15:15
FarmerT
You have a PR of 2, so you're not doing too badly..
I must ask a bit more on Jaybees question:
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how are you picking up your links? Crawl or submission.
For a search engine to become successful, even if only on a small portion of Google success, you will need to have Spiders crawling the web, yes manual submission works, but you do need to have Spiders out there, crawling the web, and submitting relevant sites to your search engine DB, and keeping it up to date. If you do have these running through the web, can I ask what language they are written in? VB? C++?
You must also be careful about the Spiders, they need to be created and deployed very carefully, as they can be mistaken for Viruses and SPAMbots
Onto the site itself:
Not slow at all, but I concur Daves comments on the design, it's messed up in Firefox. It also looks like you've gone for a Google style page? What might attract users more is if you had a more aesthetically pleasing logo, and not so many ads on the main page, maybe just links to other services provided by yourself? Leave the "Hosting" links etc for the SERPs, people will be more attracted to the clean home page on a search engine rather than just a cluttered page.
Just my $0.02
Dan
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