Thx to everyone for overwhelming support and feedback. We lauched V2 today on Day 2.<p>______Version 2 additions: (ordered by demand)<p>-Open search browser plug in<p>-Settings to Add sites (like Wikipedia.com back in)<p>-Settings to exlude even more sites<p>-favicon added<p>-Quick links to alter 'removal slices'<p>-Settings for Adult filtering<p>-Removed sites now in alpha sort order<p>______Quick stats:<p>171,686 Total Unique Searches<p>148,477 Absolute Unique Visitors<p>420,963 Pageviews<p>peaked at 1,500 concurrent users<p>+plus:<p>Got some HN Love<p>Got some Reddit Love<p>Got some Techcrunch Love
Thx to everyone for overwhelming support and feedback. We lauched V2 today on Day 2.<p>______Version 2 additions: (ordered by demand)<p>-Open search browser plug in<p>-Settings to Add sites (like Wikipedia.com back in)<p>-Settings to exlude even more sites<p>-favicon added<p>-Quick links to alter 'removal slices'<p>-Settings for Adult filtering<p>-Removed sites now in alpha sort order<p>______Quick stats:<p>171,686 Total Unique Searches<p>148,477 Absolute Unique Visitors<p>420,963 Pageviews<p>peaked at 1,500 concurrent users<p>+plus:<p>Got some HN Love<p>Got some Reddit Love<p>Got some Techcrunch Love
I'm really curious to see how -- or, for you're sake, if -- the traffic decays. A front-page view on hackernews will generate that level of traffic with an exponential decay over the next few days. That being said, <i>searches are different from views</i>, in an exciting way for you.<p>I used it and bookmarked it for potential discovery searches in the future. It's a very interesting idea.
I searched a few things, one being the project im working on now and i discovered very interesting things that lead me to book mark the results. One of the results even made me laugh and one lead me to some information i had no idea about ! Its an interesting project and i book marked your URL to discover things i normally might not so great job. I guess just like the physical world the deeper and deeper you go the more interesting and weird are the results.<p>BTW have you written your own crawlers and indexers ?
The need to have Wikipedia in search engine results is perplexing. Why not just search Wikiepdia? It is certainly not slower. They even provide SSL.<p>Is it the lack of full text search on Wikipedia?<p>I've experimented with building a full-text search for Wikipedia. But so much of the content is just copied verbatim from the sites listed in the References and External Links, it seems not worth the effort.