I have now added a new feed from the search engine Mirago to help produce more relevant results and to help pay the bill. It will display a maximum of 2 results and should be target for each country
Please let me know your feeling on this and how useful you find them
After experimenting, I have finally made it possible for others to use Burf.com search query results on their site. With no Burf.com branding and free advertising benefits from us, you can’t really lose out. It is extremely simple to add and the only requirement is that your hosting supports PHP (which most do)
For more info go to:
http://www.burf.com/beta/add_search_engine.php
Currently in beta, Burf.com and RORSeek.com have now got a ROR Product Search Engine. This allows peopel with product feeds based on the ROR xml standard to add them to Burf.com and RORSeek.com and see them indexed on the fly!
To submit your ROR Product Feed goto:
http://www.burf.com/ror_product/submit.php
http://www.rorseek.com/ror_product/submit.php
I have spent the whole day rewritting a new results algorithm which should produce a better quality results set. This new algorithm queries the indexing serivice which returns 100 results (this grows per page) and then it re-ranks them by rating pages that contain the serch words. It is weighted depending if it finds it in the title, abstract(meta) or URL
This seems to improve the result set alot. The only downfall is as the resultset grows, more valid pages could be added and then these would not be displayed because you are not on the first page. I dont want to increase the resultset base number to over 100 (because of speed) or fix the result set incase people want to see more than 100 results.
You can now see what the engine thinks of your url with the new Beta rank number.
We have nearly indexed 5 million sites, this increase from 3.5 million has taken a while but we have tried to stay focused on indexing old site regularly.
Addme.com, ranked number one in google for website submission has now added Burf.com to its submission service!
Also RORWeb.com, the founders or ror, has added Burf.com and RORSeek.com to its providers list. This can only be good news!
Currently we are having small submission and results problems with the Burf.com Engine. This is due to moving location to Farnborough. We hope to have all this ironed out within 2 weeks
Well Burf.com is going to have 4 new mini sites which will allow you to search for certain domains.
Currently 2 are in beta (.org and .uk searching) and .biz and .info will follow soon
The new addresses will be
http://Burf.me.uk
http://Burf.org.uk
http://Burf.biz
http://Burf.info
Hopefully this will allow visitors beta searching and Burf.com more exposure.
Dear Visitors
Burf.com has developed a new search engine which is currently in its beta testing stage. Please contact simon@burf.com with any suggestions and problems.
Well its finally happened! Though this number is a very small number compared to google, its still an achievement.
We are going to optimise this index and then move on to the next million.
