hi all, a group of us are putting together a new search engine, its a meta search engine and all the scripting has been done by us. We are hoping we can get some constructive feedback from this forum so we can work on the next stage of this project. Be gentle, its only a week old and we realise we have some way to go with it. The search engine is www.wedosi.com thanks for your time... see ya ET
I like it, but do not like the big ads on the homepage it is way too distracting. Also, I think you should limit the amount of search results to 10 per page. What would be helpful is to understand how you rank results from the 3 engines you pull data from. Finally, do you make any money from 'SpeedyAds'? Just curious.
hi, thanks for the feedback... we dont make money from any ads at the moment as the site is only a week old we are just toying with a few advertising options. we went for producing 40-60 results on a single page as many noted that having to go to a second and third page can be annoying. This way you can see all the results we provide in one hit. We also note that most people tend not to go past the first page on a search engine. We have put together an algorithm that we think made sense in order to rank the sites. What we produce is, from what we can tell so far, a very accurate result of websites on the topic you search for. What we dont produce are search results full of social media entries, and our method also removes all the 1 engine specific self promotion. Research by others has shown that over 65% of the results on the first page of a search on the major engines are unique to that SE. A primary reason for this is the self promotion stuff they sneak into the results. i.e Google inserts Youtube results, Yahoo inserts entries from their answers sites etc... and this explains why the results from the major SE's are becoming weaker and less correct over time. Meta search engines like ours try to fix that problem by accumulating results. thanks ET
The results are good but I don't like ads on the homepage of any search engine. Ads belong to search results. You will make money be displaying ads related to search terms, just like Adsense. The interface needs a little professional outlook. I tried the site with a 15" monitor and the table containing the search results overflows the black-bordered container to the right side.
make the first page simple. like others, not more advertising on the first page. you can add advertising on the search result. maybe that good way and make people comfortable to use the search engine.. and place the search form on top and advertising on the right side. is there any link to add or submit our site to you engine? thank you
I have a doubt. When i search for keyword, i see % in the results page. May i know what is this? Also if you are not making money, you dont need to keep ads. Its just my suggestion.
thanks for the feedback guys, the search results are inserted directly into the page without building a new page, thereby making ad insertion a little complicated. the % sign is the ranking of the result compared with the other returns. so the higher the number the stronger the return. thanks for the feedback and taking the time to have a look. ET
Looks ok but i just want to know who will use it. Everybody more or less use google. I think other people tried before without much luck.
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