Well People, I thought I would post about Burf.com and get people to ask me questions, you never know, it might even be useful or I will get heavily flamed Started 2001 but was a forum, 2003-4 became a search engine Why I started, A person from our R&D dev team said I could not make a engine in Equinox (www.compsoft.co.uk make it) that people will use. He was party right Why is it so slow. Because it runs from only one server at the moment but this is being improved. If anyone is bored, help me build the cache up and do lots of searches Why are the results poor. Because good quality results is a very hard thing to do. I am working on it What technologies do I use. Question should be do use any technologies? Well it uses php for the main site, esp (compsoft) for the searching, .net for the robot and indexing Please ask any questions, its nice to get some feedback
One thing that needs to be done is to limit results from the same domain. I just done a test search and the 2nd page of results had 7 results pages from the same domain out of the 10 displayed results.
Thanks mate, I will do that next, I will indent the same domain sites and limit it Cheers for the feedback
No mate, Burf.com has been around far longer than Surch (the engine is about 3 years old). It is not a meta engine, mine has its own index and everything which explains why the results are not great Built it for a bet, developing it ever since