Vmgo.com Search Engine (for those of you that haven't heard of it) is a search engine I began building around 3-4 years ago that could compete with google and yahoo etc... It has a very simple method of ranking pages in it's results that creates very accurate results. It uses people votes and clicks to rank the pages. Unlike google's new search wiki, changes in vmgo's results are seen by everyone, not just you. So when you come along and vote your site up to #1 in the results it will be #1 for everyone who searches for that keyword. I designed it this way to create accurate results that will create an easy way to achieve good rankings for any particular keyword. The listings provide a fast and simple way to report spammers that are ranking for words they should not rank for. So if a spammer votes their link to the top eventually someone will report that link as spam and that result is taken out of the results instantly until a real human checks it out (me). I do check every submission and every spam report which only takes a few seconds each and even at 10,000 searches a day it is very easy to keep up with. I even think I can keep up with 1 million searches a day easily. Of course at that point I will hire someone to do it for me. It has begun to get alot of searches from other countries? From alexa.com.. Vmgo.com users come from these countries: Saudi Arabia 16.6% Indonesia 15.1% Egypt 10.3% India 9.9% Sudan 5.6% Syrian Arab Republic 5.6% United States 3.8% Oman 3.6% Algeria 3.6% United Arab Emirates 3.5% Brazil 3.2% Malaysia 2.5% Kuwait 2.1% Qatar 1.2% Jordan 0.9% Philippines 0.8% Vietnam 0.7% France 0.6% Morocco 0.5% Israel 0.4% Other countries 9.4% Vmgo.com is now getting around 10,000 searches (pageviews) a day which is a good thing and has slowly been rising in searches ever sinse I built it. If you look on the home page and scroll down you will notice the "Searches done in the last few minutes". Those are searches done in the last 5 minutes. As the searches increase I may have to lower that to 2 minutes or 1 minute because it fills up the page fast. You will notice that 3.8% of our traffic comes from the USA which is around 380 searches a day of our total 10,000 searches a day. So, if you're looking for USA traffic, we've got a little bit. HAHA! We are actively promoting vmgo.com every day using many different methods which have been slowly and steadily increasing it's exposure to new people. One time we actually made it onto the top 100 alternative search engines list Which was exciting because I hear there are hundreds of thousands of search engines out there. If you know of any cheap/free ways to promote this search engine further please let me know because I am ready to go full out with this site. It's even worth a link to me in our sponsors section if you help!
Well he said he built it, unless he sold it then? Nice site(though the design is a bit off ), will try it out
I definately built it and I haven't sold it. I built it from free scripts I found on the internet and then improved on it. I only used bits and pieces of the free scripts to build it so I could make it do what I wanted it to do. My scripts are very fast and don't use up alot of space on the server which makes it able to handle alot of traffic on a single server. It caches almost everything so that it uses very little cpu. If I had to, I could easily add another server when it gets more popular. It doesn't work like google and yahoo or live search. It actually ranks pages by votes and clicks. So when someone searches for a keyword and clicks on a result, that is a vote for that link which moves it up in the rankings, even if it is #1 already, it still gets a vote which helps secure that #1 ranking. There is also a "random site of the moment" which rotates all the links in the database for the keyword you search for to #1 randomly so that all web pages in the database will have a chance to get votes and move up in the rankings. Or get reported as spam. As for the design, I'm not a designer. HAHA! I just made something simple and fast that worked for now. I will work on the design one day.
I do not have a crawler/spider. New sites can submit their new pages to any keywords they want. You can submit one page from your site to many related keywords or you can submit many pages from your site to keywords related to those pages. Pages that are not related to the keyword you submit to will be reported as spam. It's simple stuff. Your pages are indexed instantly the moment you submit to a keyword, no more waiting for weeks or months to get indexed. You control what keywords you submit to so there's no guessing where you will be ranking in the results. If you submit to the keyword {free stuff} your page will be listed when people search for free stuff. New submissions are given a boost in the rankings so they can get votes. So your new submission will usually rank #1 right away and will stay there if it's good quality. If not it'll get voted down the results or reported as spam and won't rank at all anymore. Submit a few pages from your sites and see how it works.
I have been watching your engine and even included it on my blog under - Add URL - The largest list of FREE search engine submission links and have been quite impressed by your progress. Good luck!
Vmgo.com has been getting alot of new submissions. The spam reports are awesome too! I can definately see alot of potential from this engine. I definately will start working on the design soon because the design is very cluttered and confusing. I need to clean up the scripts alot and make them a little faster too. I will work on a new design first though.
I have cleaned up the clutter on the serps and made it a little faster and cleaner looking. Let me know what I could do to make it better if you would.