A cool solution to a large problem

We heard through the grapevine a.k.a. TechCrunch about a new search engine called Gravee. We feel that they are solving a large problem that Google has begun to have more and more. Content providers don’t like search engines crawling their site only to profit from the content. Gravee is trying to solve this problem by allowing site owners to share a piece of the advertising pie. Seems pretty smart to us. Keep it up Michael your doing fantastic.

Tag Search

We have added another small update today…Tag search. You can now search for pages just using tags. Tags on pages are now displayed as links. When you click them you will see other pages with the same tags. We will be adding even more functions very soon relating to tagging. We feel that allowing user to tag pages easily will help with the overall search results.

Tagging and Discussions

We have added a couple new features including Tagging, and Discussions. There were also a few bug fixes. As always if you find a bug you may comment on our blog, or let us know at bugs @ seekum.com We will work hard to squash them. We have integrated tagging directly into the results. You may now tag pages which helps Seekum identify what the page is about and adds more pages per search query. We will be adding even more tagging functions in the future, but for now we will just stick to tagging pages themselves. We also added discussions. You can learn about discussions here. Basically discussions allow our users to talk about the search results and help each other make them better. More features will be on there way.

A small update

Another small update was added today, with a few more coming most likely this week. I actually had the honor of working on code this week with my new ipod nano. The ipod nano is for serious programmers that need an mp3 player that is very small so they concentrate on what matters…the code. JK. Seriously though we added a search box underneath the logo on the results pages which if you have been using Seekum you will know is very useful. Look for some major feature enhancements this week, and if you are interested in really learning about the nano just let me know I love mine.

Wink

I had a seriously good long look at Wink today. The people at Wink really have put something interesting together. Wink is a social search engine that focuses on bookmarking technologies to gather interesting results to the top. Wink unlike Seekum separates results based on whether they come from Google, or Users. We at Seekum allow all search results to come up, and allow our users to sort through the best of them. Wink is a pretty cool way of organizing pages, and lets you add tags to regular google results.

A few improvements

We have made a few improvements to the site. First of all numerical numbers were placed along the sides of the search results. The actual web page is now displayed so a user can know where the link will take them. i.e. underneath a description you will see something like www.example.com/examplepage.html. We have also added a few usability enhancements and bug fixes. As always let us know about any bugs you find so that we can work any kinks out. We will keep you posted.

Sign up for an account

Seekum is now up and running! You can sign up for a free account on our sign up page. We are looking forward to building the next great search engine. What do we need? We need lots of users adding pages to Seekum’s database, and lots of users voting on results for search terms. Well check out what we got so far. Note the site will undergo massive changes in the next week alone.

Interface

Our interface is still being developed. If you want to see an extremely early version of the Seekum interface look no further. Here you go! Keep in mind that this is not the search engine at work, but just a mock up of the UI. Also we are trying to degoogilize it, but we need some suggestions. We find that other search implementations are really ugly.

Search (the landscape)

There are quite a few search companies out there. Though thought to be in the thousands only several are relevant. I use Google every day, and I also use Yahoo, MSN, Ask, and Clusty. Yet there seems to be something missing. Although these engines seem to display relevant results most of the time it seams as if the results are becoming more cluttered, and less relevant. Seekum will be joining Wink and several other new engines in defining a new search engine style based on user input. Seekum will be quite different then Wink, and we will talk on that more later.

First Post

Welcome to our blog. This blog will help people understand more about the Seekum project, and learn about new features. The blog will also alert our users to what is going on with the company.