Hello all, I am pretty new to this whole search engine crowd so please feel free to correct me if I write something wrong. A friend just told me about rapidshare a while back (hard to believe I know), and I think the thing is terrific! But I had problems finding stuff, I used shareminer and rapidfox and found that their results were based on Google with a little algorithm change, but I always got allot of junk (sites that don’t have rs links at all). So to make a long story short, I took a stab at making a rapidshare search engine based on Google but with a little less junk. - gappon.com (not alowd links yet so please reply with link) So please take a look a give me your comments; does it totally suck? Is it not bad? What more should I do? And the like. Thanks!!! All comments greatly appreciated!
Really?? its seems to be working fine, i mean i am on the site right now. and it works pretty fast for me...could you please try again and let me know. thx
hmm...this isnt good. could you please tell me from which country your are, so i can find out what the problem is. thanks!
Site looks nice and loads quickly. The search works pretty well. Nice job. How's it monetizing right now?
Is it making any money? If so, how much? How much traffic do you get at the moment? I was thinking of starting a search site (not for rapidshare though, maybe MP3s), but I'm unsure if it will do well.
Money!? man almost nothing at the moment As for traffic, I started at alexa rank 9,000,000 but now i'm up to 400,000 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/gappon.com But I've only opened up the site about two months ago, so I'm not worried yet. Plus I'm, constantly "fixing" my search results and I'm adding new features so hopefully it will pick up. As for you creating a search engine; there are a lot of mp3 search engines out there, but I say GO FOR IT! Because you can always make something better than is already out there!
Thanks for the complements guys ! One question though, what you do think of the search results? Also I your opinions how does my site compare to shareminer.com, rapidfox.net and the other more popular ones. thanks again!
It looks to be pretty good on initial searches, let me play with it some more and come back with better feedback...
Well no, its totally ok and free. I use Google's Custom Search engine service. You can find a link to the service next to the results on my web page.
Thanks for the complement, especially coming for some that has a "competing" site to mine...much appreciated. I left you a comment on your thread as well.