I built a search engine and need your advise badly. Be Honest!

My site doesnt come up or any related sites either www.radiobounce.com is my site and i searched the terms 'radiobounce' radio bounce'

 

WOW! Thanks for all the great comments! I appreciate everything! I think Spyese is still working on the new design so I hope to get that going in a week or 2? I am sure he is reading this thread and taking in to account all your suggestions. I myself am good a programming but I am terrable at design so I really appreciate your Help Spyese!


Oh, and the reason I made the voting reload the page is because I wanted people to see the instant ranking increase or decrease so they would "get it".

 

I like the site. Keep working on it.

 

Simply submit your pages to the keywords you want people to find your pages under. The keywords you chose are up to you. Just make sure you submit to keywords that are related to your pages.

You can only submit one page from your site to one keyword or phrase at a time so pick your keywords wisely.

 

I like it, should do well.

 

Thanks, I hope it does. But I am affraid google has a big grip on people and it would take a miracle to get people to convert. I guess it's a good thing I believe in miracles. HAHA!

 

good one. Although submission always reports errors first, need to go back and press submit again and then it works. Anyway, a nice job.

 

I will give you my advise for free.....so not post your ideas in forums.........,

 

My main site and forum link both on the first page for my keyword... i love it! haha

But I think it looks very promising, keep up with it!

Just a quick question here though because I never understood why people would make a search engine when your competing against Google, Yahoo!, MSN, ASK etc etc Do you honestly believe you'll be able to become bigger than these sites? [I'm not having a go at you here, I just want your point of view as I was puzzled as to why people would want to challenge them unless they are a company with a lot of backing and money etc]

Jord

 

eyezshine, if you like it, take it, its yours then.

Good luck!

 

nice search engine, I just bookmarked it. Good luck, I was trying to build my own but couldn't find any software to do it.

The design could be a little better, you might want to go with a 2.0 web look for the name design or logo.

 

Jord,

I'm really not trying to become bigger than "Google, Yahoo!, MSN, ASK etc etc", I am simply trying to create a better search engine than them. And I think people power is the answer. I also realize as soon as my engine gains even a little bit of popularity there will be scripts all over the web copying it and my engine will slowly fade to nothing. Or google or one of the bigger engines will try to buy me out. I say "try" because I don't think I would sell.

I really do feel like a small fish in a huge ocean with alot of whales and sharks. But so what! Google was just a couple of college kids when AltaVista.com was the whale and they ran AV into nothing. Of course they had some money backing them in the beginning. I have no money backing me except for the money I make in my fence company and my websites.
But, I say anything is possible.

Either way, Vmgo.com will be there and I will keep working on it making it better and it will slowly gain more and more people using it every day and in 10 years from now, who knows?

I do think I am going to get a new domain name for it. Anyone want to sell me a good one?

 

I think you can keep your domain name, always the best not to change it. Sounds like YMCA or so. People will remember once it is branded. Maybe somebody can compose a song to your project

 

Just remember, I have a domain registered which is related with your project. If you really want to change domain - I have http://findgreat.info. If that is what you looking for PM me your offer.

 

I like it, keep the domain, it's great!

 

You really need to work on the logo. I'm not sure if I like the name either. Vmgo?? Don't keep the site so simple. Make it look good. But you make sure that you don't have a lot of movement (in art terms) in your site.

Plus your brief description on the homepage is a bit weird. Like "Simply type in a keyword and click "Search", isn't that what you can do on Google too. And all search engines.

Don't see any uniqueness. That's all I have. Good job though.

 

You could add a "donate box"....

Just an idea....

It isn't often I "recheck" my posts and look for progress, but your VMGO Search Engine has me interested....

Looking Good man, real good!

Good Luck

L2

 

I like the Logo Arnie drew up for you....

L2

 

i think your Next Gen search Engine needs a new name, something catchy

 

Catchy domain names are hard to find. I do think vmgo is brandable but may take some time to get it in peoples heads. "I'll vmgo that" or "I vmgo'd that" doesn't really roll of the toung if you know what I mean. But it is very easy to type on the keyboard. try it!

What would help alot is if everyone put a search box on their sites allowing your visitors to search vmgo.com which would give it more exposure to the masses.

One of these days I am going to finish my "brandable" search engine that you will be able to use for your websites. That is one of my goals. I want everyone to be able to have web search for their sites that you can make it look just like your site using editable headers and footers. I also want to have RSS feeds for programmers to use for free.

But I need to scale it up more before I open that can of worms.

What are your thoughts on the RSS and Brandable search?