Keep up this awesome work, creating a search engine on your own is, I am sure no easy task and don't worry about Google. I look forward to version 2 although version 1 is already very usable, is fast and has relevant results.

Regards

Keep up this awesome work, creating a search engine on your own is, I am sure no easy task and don’t worry about Google. I look forward to version 2 although version 1 is already very usable, is fast and has relevant results.

Regards

Sorry it's taken some time to get back to you on these questions but I've been working hard on Grabble2.

Basically at the moment we can only index domains in the ZA namespace. This means that any site with a TLD (.com, .net, .org, etc.) will unfortunately not be indexed in the current version of Grabble.

This is apart of why I've been working so hard on the next version of Grabble. Not only has the technology been re-written but V2 is faster and more flexible and allows us to include other TLD names.

The most noticeable area where this is problematic is with blogger.com. We have hundreds(thousands?) of SA bloggers using Google's service and I can't index them.

If all goes well Grabble2 will go into beta by the end of January and I'll post a link on my blog for everyone to test it out.

Sorry it’s taken some time to get back to you on these questions but I’ve been working hard on Grabble2.

Basically at the moment we can only index domains in the ZA namespace. This means that any site with a TLD (.com, .net, .org, etc.) will unfortunately not be indexed in the current version of Grabble.

This is apart of why I’ve been working so hard on the next version of Grabble. Not only has the technology been re-written but V2 is faster and more flexible and allows us to include other TLD names.

The most noticeable area where this is problematic is with blogger.com. We have hundreds(thousands?) of SA bloggers using Google’s service and I can’t index them.

If all goes well Grabble2 will go into beta by the end of January and I’ll post a link on my blog for everyone to test it out.

still, grabble rocks!

awesome

still, grabble rocks!

awesome

I hear you and I believe that the more search engines there are the better for all of us. I did a few searches and had some international results (notably Poland) but from your about page it says you only crawl South African sites, how do you enforce that? What about South Africans that post abroad on blog services like Blogspot how would you include their sites?

Keep up the good work.

Personally I believe Google has the right to show tips to punt its own products. Even though now I believe they have been removed.

China is a huge economy and a big market and I'm sure Google makes a pretty penny out of China with its advertising on the search engine, so in order for Google to keep that revenue coming in it has to play nice with the Chinese government.

I hear you and I believe that the more search engines there are the better for all of us. I did a few searches and had some international results (notably Poland) but from your about page it says you only crawl South African sites, how do you enforce that? What about South Africans that post abroad on blog services like Blogspot how would you include their sites?

Keep up the good work.

Personally I believe Google has the right to show tips to punt its own products. Even though now I believe they have been removed.

China is a huge economy and a big market and I’m sure Google makes a pretty penny out of China with its advertising on the search engine, so in order for Google to keep that revenue coming in it has to play nice with the Chinese government.