2005-04-10
Welcome to YaGoohoo!gle
This site started as an April Fool's post on Slashdot, and the saying was that the fool wasn't even any good. I got a fair amount of hits with people searching for "haha", "funny", "april fool", and "bonesaw". Bonesaw?
But then traffic rose. I started receiving feedback. The router crashed (I later found out that the DDoS-logic had kicked in). I've got several offers for hosting the site, and donations have started coming in.
There are currently 40,500 Google hits and 50,100 Yahoo! hits for "yagoohoogle". The Inquirer and Spiegel (de) has written about it.
In this blog I'll try to keep you up to date about the site's status and also searching tips. Comments from anyone are welcome, but I require registered Blogger users (aren't you one already??!) to avoid comment spam.
Enjoy YaGoohoo!gle, and keep comparing search results!
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38 comments:
pretty awesome ..
Quite clever. Keep it ad-free!
that looks pretty cool
I sent you a email about an the idea of offering a side bar of your website. But I forgot to add that you could also try to submit a search engine thing in Firefox on the top right hand corner!! Just an Idea!! Great website though!!! Two thumbs up!!!!
The next thing you should think about in my personal opinion is some type of tool bar and put a place on the site to send donations. Chris Ellis, MWSC
Hi, I made a Firefox Search Plugin for YaGoohoo!gle and I just thought I'd tell you about it. You can get it at my site, http://www.caboose666.tk :)
Forgot to add that you can also contact me (if you wish to do so) at gtcaboose(AT)gmail(DOT)com :)
yagoohoogle is a good idea.. but please check, when u include characters like # or % in the search string (like c#.net) .. it does not produce actual results.. it get stripped off.. the reason could be it doesnt parse query string correctly
say if you need hosting we can help too..
e-mail and we can mirror your site if you would like!
www.coollinks2k4.com
or give ya some space too.
email is on the bottom of site,Nice job!
On your top bar you could return to your main page when you click on the YaGoohoo!gle image, much like clicking on the Google or Yahoo image.
Great work, love it!
my site is http://4rfd.net the .com isnt working for some reason :(
buen trabajo ,la calificacion de la incorporacion de este trabajo merece un 10.
Sigue adelante
nice idea! :)
nice idea! :)
I write to you from Spain. I have discover YaGoohoo!gle by chance, and I really think this is a great idea. I wonder why nobody thought of it before... I'm sure that it's going to be a brilliant sucess. Thank you for offering this service to the Internet community!
Kewl
Hope it stays up and add free.
muchfree
hey mate...
good job! i love the concept of placing both search engines side by side. :)
cheers
Very nice work. Highly original, and a neat effort. Keep up the good work (y)
A friend just sent me your link very cool idea.
See if you can parse ad search by google so you can get paid for the links if someone clicks there. It's only a couple of pennies but hey, a couple million of a couple of pennies is a good thing!
Definitely clever! An interesting twist on meta-search. Sounds like there is a lot of potential for it to grow.
Mate, that rocks. I just threw the code into my blog. If you aren't a millionaire next week I'd be very suprised. What a cool idea!
Are you concerned about trademark violations?
cool, 2 search engines in one click! good idea.
Hmmm... Nice move, but not quite new idea. I myself have a search-page that is JavaScript driven and that searches FOUR different engines at the same time. And that's been there for meny years (only changed what engines I use, started long before Yahoo and Google). Take at look at it at:
http://home.chello.no/~larse/search.html
really cool! will tell my friends about this. :)
Hi! This is great thing!
Can you show, how do you make it? I very need to unite two search forms.
please email me: snth@mail.ru
please give me some bug findings/reports of my extended version of yagoohoogle - , i called my version yamsgoohoogle and the site is at wwww.yamsgoohoogle.tk (i have my site residing on anohter of my domains called seaeat.org - but i have donated hosting for the project there only till july this year).
pls do help me help u clean my version up for all to use my sending me yo comments, suggestions, analysis, bugs & feel free to visit the yamsgoohoogle blog where i'll post updates and newer versions.
cheers!
Nice way to compare results.
Very cool! Hope the traffic grows.
We'll have something on it at our site as well.
good idea, but i had already created somthing like this. You can search up to 4 different search engines. There are 15 different search engines you can search from (more to come) the site is http://www.rjnsmith.com I hope this will be usefull to everyone! Soon will be images and News!
Ryan ~ only 16 years of age.
great site, but this page is now blocked by my school's firewall. they have it labeled as 'pornography'.
thanks for marrying yahoo & google, great job!
I am the webmaster of www.themsngoogle.co.uk and have decided that i do not have the time to keep my ste up to date. Any one interested in running the site or buying it completly off of me please visit the site and contact me.
Thanks a lot Asgeir,
I have seen it in the news posted at The Inquirer by "INQUIRER staff". I have no idea how many "staff" members were involved, but it seems it was so hard to them to "inquire" who was the author of YaGoohoogle so that they even didn't mention your name. :)
Anyway, I added your search engine to my Best Search Engines (all in one) page.
Mario a.i.
(as is)
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