Search Engine (From University Project)

Hey, just to keep people posted, I'm still looking for testers for
PLink. I've added several features based on input so far.

- When signing up an individual now gets a confirmation e-mail which
they must respond to.
- To cut down on clutter I now attempt to group together similar
search results.
- I've added a Blogging and C.V. creation tool, which is built out of
a previous university project... If you've signed up for an account
just click on Edit My C.V., to get started. This tool is neat, and
gives me something to index on a regular basis other than just
external sites... (The tool allows you to export your C.V. as a .PDF
so it's actually fairly useful.)
- I've indexed several thousand more sites, and refined the algorithms
somewhat (having found an error with one).

Ben.

I've just signed up for PLink, interested to see what happens with it.
It sure will
be a long while before it will be a decent search engine.

Example: If I search for: 'imdb' I get the main IMDb page first and
then a long list
of actors, movies and other side-pages which I don't need. Very
annoying to get.

Thanks for the interest, one thing I was trying to do was collapse
similar results together, so you don't get a ton of annoying ones...
maybe I could be more liberal in the way I do this.

I've also modified the algorithms to give a bonus to main pages,
specifically ones suggested by users, I think this will help bring the
most relevant results up to the top.

Ben.

On May 16, 9:08 am, Thibaud <thibaud.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just signed up for PLink, interested to see what happens with it.
> It sure will
> be a long while before it will be a decent search engine.
>
> Example: If I search for: 'imdb' I get the main IMDb page first and
> then a long list
> of actors, movies and other side-pages which I don't need. Very
> annoying to get.