Why We Are Here > Traffic
Roll your own search engine?
Brad:
>algos
I remember when Microsoft first launched their search engine, Windows Live Gates Search or whatever, and it was derided, rightly, on WmW. They thought that a glorified document search would work. Web is different and if you become big people will try to spam it. MS eventually got it to be pretty good. (Now they don't know what to do with it.)
>>Yacy.net
I have mixed feelings about that one. They are building a commercial index, but with other people's work. And we don't know how they are going to use it in the end. I'll look into it some more, but they really need a competent crawler.
>>Mojeek
I will give them some feedback. It's good to get that from outside eyes.
Brad:
--- Quote from: BoL on August 22, 2018, 01:12:56 PM ---
Do pass on your experiences with Mojeek and your trial via the feedback option, it's invaluable to hear about real-world experience
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BoL,
I used Mojeek as my default every day for 3 weeks and blogged a review. Mojeek noticed my review via Twitter. They linked to it on their blog. So they got my feedback.
rcjordan:
I read your review. So DDG/Bing is still your primary, but only because of index size?
Good idea about parallel.
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Any idea as to how they plan to monetize?
BoL:
Brad, your feedback was received and greatly appreciated, cheers. It's all taken on board. One of the things I'll be helping out with is to try squeeze a bit more room in indexes to increase overall index size...
Did you notice the knowledge graph stuff? I'd put a bit of that together.
Marc (the founder/owner) has a fair idea of the value of traffic, he's looking simply to get the search numbers up before thinking more about monetisation.
Brad:
>>DDG/Bing
Mainly. Sometimes even DDG just does not have enough deep, long tail stuff and I have to resort to StartPage.
Where Mojeek started coming up short were searches like, "free perl webring hosting script" "free php webring hosting script" "bomis ring hosting script" (I'm going from memory here.) When you get into 5 word searches about unpopular topics like webrings you can start seeing Mojeek struggling to produce.
On DDG/Bing if you do searches like "best linux note software" "How to install ubuntu linux" "best windows 10 calendar software" or any of those kind of hardware software reviews, lists comparisons, I can almost predict the sites that will come up on the first page: Lifehacker, makeuseof, techworld, computerworld, etc. Nothing wrong with those just Bing has it's favorites.
Which made Mojeek refreshing, for those same searches I'd be getting second tier and some UK sites that actually have better written, more in depth articles. Those were the gems I talked about.
>Monetize
No idea. DDG started out using Amazon alone, then brought in Bing Ads, that seems to work okay as long as they don't track more than the query and don't overload the serps with ads. Qwant uses Bing ads I think.
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