klown, just thank them for what they have, and others don't Edit: webshotspro.com offers instant shumbshots for search engines, free to use. I think you should go with them, Surch
oops i forgot to say that! surch looks amazingly good and it seems like it could actually become a serious competitor, anyone who buys 125 servers at a time is in it for the long haul
Klown, the image issue is because we are running it in-house and I need to get to putting that service on its own cluster with some massive TB drives... Ive ordered about 100TB's in drives so far and they should arrive at the noc soon which will help. On the other stuff Klown let me get back to you as Im running out to dinner and a movie...
From what I have been told by Surchin and please correct me if I'm wrong but he is currently having some commercials done and they will be airing on tv...But only in certain parts of the coutry...My guess would be big cities. From what I also understand, is that this may not be real soon as they havn't actcually started any pr yet that I know of besides posting on some forums just to get some user feedback! What amazes me still to this day is that they start at 0 users a day and advertise on a few forums to get some users feedback and now they are getting like 19,000 alexa ranks per day!!! Wow! I think people are using it and they dont' even care that its still in beta lol. Good Job Surchin!
yea i cant wait for the commercials also.. surch, are u allowing limited free directory submissions? and i wonder what SURCH.com's PR will be next update
hi guys Ive been out with a cold... anyways ash, havent decided on teh directory yet but Ill be taking a look at that this week. On SurchRANK we will something up soon.
adurobi, Surch just bought 120TB system from capricorn-tech so we will be running our own thumb service within 2 weeks so that should solve all the problems.... its about 125 million MB's of storage And the image service is built using AJAX and will, if a thumb is not currently in our database grab it on the fly when you perform a query and then store it... so it will grow while people use surch The biggest problem for us using free services is that they will shut us off... I mean rightfully so because if surch say only got 1 million hits a day at 10 thumbs per result page X say 3 pageviews per user then we are sucking down mad amounts of data and band from these free services and they tend to not like that :-P
Surchin, just one remark, it's possible on Surchin to change the user language interface. That's nice. But the translation, in french for instance is really, really bad. It's clearly an automated translation (because if you paid someone for that, well...) It's almost meaningless and ridiculous. I didn't check other languages, but I think you really should, either get a good translation or remove it altogether. It doesn't look professional at all and can only bring discredit to you. Hope it does help.
It looks like a really nice site... really like the landing page as well. Also, thought that your categories after the search added a little extra. Best of luck.
Monty you are correct it was just generated. We will build out the international section soon with proper translations... but go ahead and PM me on this for some further thoughts I want to run by you... Primeryder, we are redoing many components of surch using ajax or its methods. Im not sure what you know about it but Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right and coming together in powerful new ways that make web based applications share the richness and responsiveness of desktop applications. Basically Prime, you're going to see surch become a lot faster, a lot easier, far more seamless and overall you will have a better browsing experience. There will be personalized homepage features as seen in msn and yahoo etc.... Ill be posting more on this soon. Surchin
its coming its coming its coming.... working out these new servers plus we got that 120TB rack for the site thumbs... what a pain this is..... going to be crawling 5 billion sites for the next 6 months LOL.
I like the clean design and layout of the site. Also, the search results are top-notch. However, I think the results contain too many links; makes it somewhat cluttered looking. I think the preview link is an over-kill considering you already have a thumbnail image for each result. Since this search engine is designed for consumers and not webmasters, you should do everything you can do accomodate them. Just my two cents! BTW, are you still giving out free PPC accounts? If so, I am interested. Regards, Steve
Thats the description for the yahoo dir, obviously the crawler got the first of the text (i can tell from the cached page). i did a search for directory.. also on a search for directory i noticed this ... surch.com LiveKnowledge also knows this about: directory [ Show ] when i clicked on [ Show ] i got the following thats pretty damn cool!
hey surch, you should make ur directory very exclusive so it has value, like dmoz or yahoo directory...this will make ur site a instant hit with webmasters ,, and u could do some incentive like if we put ur search bar anywhere on our sites, we can get submission to ur directory
Steve, thanks glad you like it. As for the preview and such...many thing like that will be options in the next release where we are using Ajax for Surch Personalization. As to the thumbs because I know someone is going to ask again... we just got a 120TeraByte System that is going to index ALL the thumbs of each site on the net... and because I know Ash1 is going to ask Ill answer it now... Yes DP memb's will get first dib's on submitting their url to the thumb engine before it starts to crawl About the free PPC... PM me and Ill set you up or read in this thread about how to do it and Ill approve it for you. Klown, as always glad you like it... I think you are the first to notice that and yes we will make it more obvious in the future... It works for most anything actually so try something like "computer" or "shoes" etc... also notice that in the live knowledge it has links to common terms that when clicked will pull the results for those words within surch. We will be allow for users to submit to this at some point so you can have Surch Live Knowledge listing with links about your site or if information is contained with the knowledge base that have relevance to your site! Asher, (ur new name for the day) in what way would you say to make the dir exclusive? I mean already its paid only... Sure Ill let anyone that places a surch box on their site have a submission... thats fine with me... Also when we actually start marketing the PPC we have a module that with the surch box it can track like adsense so you get paid on a syndication type relationship...
This site is amazing, I'm very pleased with how it performs so far, and it's madly ambitious, the act of stepping up in the search engine market alone is enough to get my admiration, but when you do it at this level, damn boy. There's one thing I'm curious about though, who's funding surch.com? An initiative like this needs major financial backing, and no bank would grant a loan to someone trying to get into a market that is so dominated by the big three. So who's funding you? Oh and when can I buy stock?