I was looking for a decent name for a search engine and this is what I registered: www.Serpent.ws Why you ask???? It's a common name....serpent....and it's brandable It's got the letters SERP "Search Engine Results Page" The .ws goes nicely with "Web Search" Thus: SERPent Web Search I'm just using a Yahoo API script for now...still tweaking Ed
I like your search engine but why should anyone use it instead of Google? A search of Google - 'serpent search engine' doesn't show your site. Serpent is easy to remember and to spell, but the .ws is forgetable. Promoting sites is a problem for all webmasters. Good luck.
To be entirely honest, I think it's a mistake to use non .com domains. I used to run a site at internet-marketing-research.net, and people were always mistakenly linking to internet-marketing-research.com With your domain, if you promote it and get it branded, I would bet that you'd end up losing some traffic intended for your site to serpent.com Just my .02 of course.
Nobody can compete with google, I just did it to see if I could do it!!! It's more of a gimmick search engine, the type you look for when google, yahoo and msn get boring!! It's only a week old, so it wont be in any search engine. I'm hoping visitors will remember the .ws if I promote it as Web Search Ed
Actually, I personally think that your idea is quite original. You will definately get your piece of the pie. Good luck,
Just added a new "contextual search" function to Serpent.WS It uses Yahoo's YIQ technology and has 2 parts: If you click on where it says "Find Similiar Sites" you'll get a small window that will give you a list of similiar sites based on the text in the title, summary and url of the result. (This is nothing new, Yahoo has had this out for awhile) Also if you highlight any text on the page, a little Yahoo Icon will pop-up and if you click on the icon it will show you a few search results for the highlighted text and then allows you to do a full search for the text.
I'm curious as to how you're obtaining Yahoo results. Are you paying for an XML feed, and if so, isn't that costing you a fortune? A free API will only get you so far...
I use the free API and according to Yahoo: "Yahoo! Web Search Web Services are limited to 5,000 queries per IP per day"