We are pleased to announce that work is going well on our new search engine, code named wombat. We have struggled for years to index large sums of data on budget hardware and serve up the results in a timely fashion. With the Burf.com Search Engine, we currently have many different layers to go through for a site to be indexed. The new project goes back to the basics and its initial data set is based off the Dmoz directory. However the actual results provided to the user will be far from simple. We are working on a stronger algorithm which we will actually describe on this site soon!
Reading this, your probably thinking, ok good news however what does the title have to do with the post. Wombat wont just be a search engine like the current one. We are planning on storing data on thousands of different topics like jokes, game cheats, business listings, even baby names. Soon you will be able to select a search filter that will return just one type of data to you.
The type of examples we hope will be:
- List all accountants in New York
- I know there is a joke about a carrot, list all jokes that contain the word carrot
- Whats that song called, it has the words let me be your fantasy
Now a few sites do offer some of these services but hopefully we are going to offer so much more!
We hope to beta wombat by the end of May! We will keep you informed!
