yawoop search engine!

Hey I was wondering if you guys and gals wouldn't mind giving me some feed back on the search engine I recently install at yawoop.com

Maybe you can add comments regarding the following,

Search results -
Speed -
Design -
Feel -
overall rating out of 10 - 1- 10
Trust -
SEO -

I find when I use it I get sent to Digital Point a lot


Thanks in advance

bbrian017

 

I am impressed with your work,I suggest,You do some marketing and launch the search engine in a commercial manner,I am sure you would do good,The relevancy of your results is pretty good.....Keep up the good work,I have a search engine too www.mydoodo.com but I am not able to do much with it,If you can suggest some steps or render some help,I will appreciate.....

 

Hey Rome thanks for the kind words! Could you possibly give a rating using the suggested template.

Search results -
Speed -
Design -
Feel -
overall rating out of 10 - 1- 10
Trust -
SEO -

Also I suggest starting your own thread like I did regarding your Search Engine only because you're kinda Hijacking mine!

 

Search results - 7
Speed - 8
Design - 7
Feel - 7
Trust - ?
SEO - ?

You seem to be using MSN/live search index and that search engine is not that good, at least not compared to Google or Yahoo. To give an example, search for;

http://www.yawoop.com/search.php?page=0&query=debian+php5+fastcgi&btn1=Search

it shows the same thing on the second place;

[FASTCGI] Debugging help: POSTs, SSL, mod_fastcgi, and PHP5

MSN does that too, but threaded (so you see it is the same site)

Google & Yahoo (Yahoo even slightly better) notice that I am more likely looking for an howto install than for debugging or bug information.

And that is a really clear query even; very technical, easy to find for a searchengine.

For your design + feel; remove all those spammy links. I know you want to use it to promote your or other people their sites, but now it looks a bit weird; just throwing those links on top.

So work on the design a bit and it'll be nice !

 

Are you talking about the links that show up on the Search.php page? I was thinking about removing them and yes they are all my sites I own them all!

 

hihi, I love it. very interesting

 

it is interesting, has different results.I think i can try it.)

 

Thanks everyone I'm glad you like it!

 

Search results -6/7
Speed - 3
Design - 6 (has a google feel but the reslts page writing is too big, homepage is nice though)
Feel - 7
overall rating out of 10 - 6
Trust -
SEO -

 

I guess when I asked for Trust and SEO it was my inexperience seeing this seems to mean nothing right?


lol I'm a noob

 

SEO is your department to try and work out where its placed in search engines we cant answer that, as for trust its a search engine so long as i believe it will get decent results you have my trust. i dont use just 1 search engine i split it the main 2 i use however are yahoo and google i dont like msn in the slightest

 

nice search engine but they need to work more on speed and quality fo results.

 

bbrian017,
I posted a fix for your stripslash issue over at:
http://www.mihalism.com/index.php?showtopic=290&st=0

There are 4 places in the script where you need to make the change.

Ed

 

Thanks for the fix! I will give it a try.

I don't really understand what you're saying in that post. What file do I need to edit and what needs to be fixed?

 

Apparently posts at that forum need to be approved first before they appear, cause it's not up yet. So here's what you do:

In the search.php file change this line:
<?php echo htmlspecialchars($data['properties']['query']); ?>

to this:
<?php echo htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(stripslashes($data['properties']['query']))); ?>

the four places are:

between the title tags

This line in the form (both the top and bottom search forms).Replace yours with this:
<input class="query_box" type="text" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(stripslashes($data['properties']['query']))); ?>"

Then find the section that displays the # of search results, and replace yours with this:
Results <b><?php echo $data['properties']['first_result']; ?></b> - <b><?php echo $data['properties']['last_result']; ?></b> of a estimated <b><?php echo $data['resultset attr']['real_results']; ?></b> results for <b><?php echo htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(stripslashes((strlen($data['properties']['query']) > 40) ? substr($data['properties']['query'], 0, 40).'...' : $data['properties']['query']))); ?></b>

Ed

 

it's crazy you know this code that well. I will try what you say and see what the results are.

Thanks

bbrian017