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Search Engine Submission API Is Up Again

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

In case you have been trying to add your URL though any of the automated services that use our API, it might have failed.

You see, we had a problem with our web hosting provider. And that prevented most confirmation emails from being sent out.

I get the problem fixed now, by moving the confirmation emails to another server. Still if you submitted though FreeWebSubmission.com or through another automated service between 4th and 8th October you URL is most likely not in our index.

To those of you that were hit by this I just want to say I’m sorry for the hassle.

To get your URL indexed, just go to our add url page and enter it manually. That’s all you need to do.

Happy Searching,

Simon
CEO and Founder
Secret Search Engine Labs

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Beta Testing Is Open, Did You See The Press Release Last Week?

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

I forgot to blog about it but in case you didn’t notice we started the official beta testing period last week and we even had a press release distributed through PRWeb.

Thanks to the press release we had about 400 extra visitors on last Thursday and Friday,  most spending more than the average number of click on site.

The number if visitors isn’t exactly earth shattering but nevertheless it was great to have you all here and I hope many of you will be back for more searches.

The Beta testing period is planned to run all year and end in a public launch in January 2011 with the target of having over a million relevant pages indexed by then.

I also want to take the opportunity to apologize if you have stumbled upon some less than relevant results. We had a bit of a Cuil experience when in anticipation of a stampade of visitors from the press release we added a new cache database to speed up searches.

Yes the searches are now about 30 times faster with most searches ready in less than half a second.

The downside is it will take a whole month before the cache is fully populated with data and in the meantime the search results are based only on a subset of the whole index. For some search terms this means junk and garbage from the bottom of the barrel will show up.

Please enjoy the new super quick search results and check out the ping tool in the webmaster tools section.

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Link Counting Problem Fixed

Friday, December 25th, 2009

We had a slight problem with counting the final number of links from a page, when new links where discovered and there was several duplicates (same URL)  of the same link on the page we counter every duplicate of the same link.

This caused many pages to get a lower number of outlinks approved than what the CashRank would allow.

i.e. if the CashRank of a page was 10 and there was 5 duplicates of a link to the /shop/ directory, the page would effectively only get 5 links out even though the CashRank would allow 9 links out.

The link counting is now fixed which should speed up discovery of new sites and allow indexing of more pages from sites that were affected by the bug.

Simon

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