Accelax

A Brand New Search Engine

2008-04-23T18:01:00.000-07:00

I decided to call my latest search engine Where Can I Find Pages? because after a bit of research, I realized that most web surfers actually using my search engine search by starting each query like "Where can I find..."

I believe that by including those few words in my new sites domain name will get the pages from this site ranked higher on other search engines when my potential visitors search with English questions in the queries.

Georgia Mesothelioma Lawyer

2008-02-05T11:32:00.000-08:00

Soon after switching the domain on the server from Accelax to Knoole, as going through the traffic stat logs I realized how many people actually searched for expensive terms like georgia mesothelioma lawyer. That made me think how I could use this fact for my advantage. So I designed a new site with the term included in the domain name to see what happens. The site has very little content on it, but only a day after setting it up, I found it in the Google index. It got indexed faster than my other test project: email spammers which already got a PR1 linking within just a week after putting the site up.

Accelax Moved Again

2008-01-08T10:23:00.001-08:00

I decided to move the guts of Accelax to a new skin and because the new skin deserved a new domain as well, the site completely changed. To avoid duplicate content issues on Google,Yahoo! and MSN, I had to setup redirects to the new site.

The new site is called Knoole. Please check it out and let me know what you think!

Accelax Reincarnating?

2007-12-17T14:58:00.000-08:00

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...

Squidoo Search

2007-12-07T12:45:00.000-08:00

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.

Accelax Search

2007-11-27T09:22:00.000-08:00

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.