Monday, December 17, 2007

Accelax Reincarnating?

Accelax search is a result of an evolution that has been going on for several years. The first search engine I ever built was websniffy.com which got duplicated then enhanced on a new domain netsniffy.com which soon evolved into something better and called it topcrawl.com. Soon I created a bunch of other search engines like gileos.com, even some international ones which opened my eyes up to more problems that need solutions, so I ended up creating over 30 search engines, before I got to the current scripts and databases running on accelax.com

I am seriously playing with the idea of getting Accelax's soul (including its databases, spider, back-end scripts) transferred into a new body. I already know the new name, registered the new domain name and started designing the site. The logo and the styling are done, but there is still a lot of coding to do to make it better than the current accelax.com site. If you liked Accelax, please don't be disappointed. It's not a sad end to Accelax, because its soul will live on in a new body. Plus every time it gets reborn it becomes better and better...

Friday, December 7, 2007

Squidoo Search

I recently added a new search type to Accelax: Squidoo Search! Now you can search for Squidoo lenses simply by entering squidoo: in front of the query and my little search engine will return with a list of relevant squidoo lenses matching your keywords and sorted by relevance.

If you are a Squidoo lensmaster and you cannot find your lens in the Accelax index, make sure you submit all your lenses to Accelax using the free add URL service.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Accelax Search

This blog is about my search engine: Accelax.

What is Accelax?
I created a search engine for myself as a birthday present which I named Accelax. Since I have been building search engines for about three years I decided to use everything I learned during these years and use the cream of all the code I wrote for the components that build up a search engine: web crawler (haven't named it yet, please comment with your suggestions), database with indexes (which holds currently only tens of thousands of pages growing by the minute as the crawler is visiting new pages), searching/filtering/ranking algorithm (which not just finds the best results for a given query as quickly as possible, but it also orders the long list of results by ranking then it breaks them down to pages) and the others modules which makes my search engine unique, different from the other search engines, Google, Yahoo!, Live Search and the thousand others out there...

What makes Accelax different from the other search engines?
That's what I'm going to talk about in my next posts. Imagine how stupid it would be if I wrote down everything right in my first post right away... What would I write about later? :)

Please check out my little search engine and if you like it: bookmark it, email it to a friend, blog about it... what did I forget? Oh yeah I know: use it!
Why? Because if you use it, then I have more data to work with to make it better.

I'm open to suggestions, so if you have something to say about Accelax, please comment here or send me a private message using the contact form on the site. Please send me comments on bugs if you can find any, suggestions on naming my web crawler or spider, suggestions on improving the search results or user experience and anything you have to say about it.