Seekum blog moving

The Seekum blog is now going to be at:
http://www.seekum.com/blog

We wanted the flexibility of having wordpress on our servers. All posts and comments have been moved except for this one. We hope to be seeing you there!

Seekum Performance

We have noticed a tidalwave of traffic today, and Seekum in general was feeling the pain of the extra traffic. We modified some of our core search code to make it leaner and meaner, and we also will be adding some more servers over the week. As many new users signed up today, I would like to welcome them and apologize for today’s overall performance. It is working much faster tonight now that the code has been updated, and look for even more improvement this comming week.

Readability

Tonight I posted a slight interface change. I have had some concerns voiced to me about the inteface namely a compaint about the readability of the content. The descripitions were a little tough on the eyes. So with a dash of CSS and some color changes we improved the site readability, and a few other things as well. First the URL has been modified to be a little smaller, and a different color. The main description is a tad bit bigger with a different color as well. The title is also bigger with the same color for the link. I also changed the word “votes” to “WeRank.” As for the future many more changes will be comming. Some new features will be due this week, and the interface is still up for discussion. We also will be adding Ajax in the comming months to decrease the need for refreshing the page.

Adsense and weirdness

I have noticed that when Adsense does not display results based on the search. John Sena ads seem to come up. Many World Wrestling Entertainment ads also come up. After looking at all of the content on the site, I’m stumped. Anyone know why this could be happening?

An interview by Chris Brogan

I took some time to interview with Chris Brogan which he has posted on his blog. I hope that you enjoy.

Many Fixes

Over the past couple of weeks we have implented many fixes to the Seekum search experience. We have fixed various problems with tagging including multiple word tags, tagging when signed in, and have implented a similar tags feature. We also have improved the look for the firefox browser. There are still some kinks, but we are working on it. Sorry for any problems that you might be having on the firefox browser. Currently IE, and Safari are both fully working. In the next few days even more fixes will be worked out with a few feature enhancements as well. If you have any ideas on how we can make Seekum better just let us know.

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.

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.

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.