Surch.com

Discussion in 'All Other Search Engines' started by surchin, Jun 22, 2006.

  1. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #41
    Be kind to us oldies and give us a light bright skin on that browser too please.

    And will you be coding your own browser or using someone else's activex?
    Will designers have to learn new hacks to make their sites look good in surch?
    If it's using someone else's activex (etc) then what will make it better than the original?
     
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  2. surchin

    surchin Banned

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    #42
    Sarah, LOL. thats just one skin of many. There is a default that is, as you would say "a light bright skin" :)
    Hrm... Im unsure as to what you are asking about "hacks" to look good in surch... If you are talking about the browser, No. it displays content just as IE. We have our own kernel but the first release will be using IE lib's to minimize the download size. Some of the features of the browser are a tab system as seen in opera, a buddy bar as in netscape with an IM application similar to trillian with multi-platform support, rss new reader, built in voip/video conferencing, encryption tool for password protection, voice activation, built in ftp client, ssh client also built in and a few more toys :)
    If you like surch.com you will love the browser...
     
    surchin, Jun 25, 2006 IP
  3. ly2

    ly2 Notable Member

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    #43

    Honestly, I just like to open my IE and my start page has all the RSS news feeds I want and it shows my inbox so I know if I have any new email. The email is the main thing that makes me keep Google as my start page.

    As for privacy, I'm not really worried about that. I mean, I'm not searching for how to make bombs or even weird kinds of porn, so I really dont care what they do with my info.

    I still say, if you play it right, you could have a real big site on your hands. Your SE already blows ask.com out of the water, msn and Yahoo too. I cant give you enough props, good job.
     
    ly2, Jun 26, 2006 IP
  4. ly2

    ly2 Notable Member

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    #44
    btw, when is the next surch PR & BL update coming?
    =p
     
    ly2, Jun 26, 2006 IP
  5. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #45
    So you've never tried a css design and had it look great in Firefox and shite in IE, or the other way around?

    Aaah, just viewed your source - I can see how you've avoided that nightmare :p
     
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  6. dre

    dre Peon

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    #46
    I like it, looks better yahoo!
     
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  7. surchin

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    #47
    ly2, soon, very soon. We are working out specifically what we are going to do with how the PPC will work... I want to have some equality within surch. I mean if I go do a surch on "the other engine" for our company name for instance ( surch ) ebay is bidding on the term!!! I think the buying power of some has caused the little guy to get pushed out and we are making a stab at changing that.
     
    surchin, Jun 27, 2006 IP
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    #48
    Surch.com is the 316,392 most popular site on the internet. It's popularity has spiked in the last short while!

    but how I read it, the site will need another 300,000,000,000 people per day or something to be as popular as the big 3.
     
    dcole07, Jun 27, 2006 IP
  9. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    #49
    Heres a suggestion that I think could make you competitive with the big dogs.

    Create SR (Surch Rank)

    Im sure most webmasters would LOVE an alternative to page rank. Something that looks at webpages on alot more than backlinks. Also something that is updated frequently or you can do a query to give live results.

    If you win over the webmasters then you will get SR plastered all over the internet. :)
     
    aaron_nimocks, Jun 27, 2006 IP
  10. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #50
    Just don't do anything daft like penalise sites on the same IP. In smaller cities local companies tend use the same hosting company - and therefore have their sites on the same IP
     
    sarahk, Jun 27, 2006 IP
  11. dcole07

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    #51
    google's Page Rank is just for show. If you look at your pagerank bar, it's likely to be as much as 3 months out of date (or so I read)
     
    dcole07, Jun 27, 2006 IP
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    ly2 Notable Member

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    #52
    if/when surch.com starts to get even remotly close to any of the big three, one of them will just dangle 10 mill in surch.com's face and buy them out
     
    ly2, Jun 27, 2006 IP
  13. surchin

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    #53
    dcole07.... actually 316K is not true... thats a previous 3 month average...but refresh it a couple times... the 3 month average now is 195K... todays ranking however was 11K....
    aaron, shhh... ur giving away secrets... u a mind reader eh? :-P
    ly2, that I promise you wont happen... not in this for the money. If you take even alexa (and I know what some think of alexa) into account its growing and without any PR. Surch I hope one day will be, what we all want the web too be. :)
     
    surchin, Jun 27, 2006 IP
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    #55
    Hey,

    I love your site and am happy to see my sites listed.

    Do you index all sites or do you use Google API? Also is it a custom script or a modded one?
     
    podman, Jun 28, 2006 IP
  16. greatat8

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    #56
    hey good one ..its really cool ..and the coolest thing is displaying the small snap shop of websites
     
    greatat8, Jun 29, 2006 IP
  17. surchin

    surchin Banned

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    #57
    and for the record.... I had the snap shots feature LONG before ask.com :-P Pod, No google API.... There are many components to surch but overall its custom...
     
    surchin, Jun 29, 2006 IP
  18. surchin

    surchin Banned

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    #58
    greatat8...next to your header or any for that matter in the results there is a preview button...click it and then maximize it.... you might like that feature as well... just a little iFrame trick but....
     
    surchin, Jun 29, 2006 IP
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    #59
    Hey, Would you be releasing a copy of it?
     
    podman, Jun 29, 2006 IP
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    #60
    If he did release a copy, then what would be the point of this site... sites that release a copy of there search engine don't use there search engine, just "sell" it..

    like nutch search engine uses google on there website.
     
    dcole07, Jun 29, 2006 IP