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A bit disappointed that I cannot yet add Samuru to the list of search engines in FF. I switch between three engines multiple times each day. By the way, will I

by dleskov 13y ago

A bit disappointed that I cannot yet add Samuru to the list of search engines in FF. I switch between three engines multiple times each day. By the way, will I be able to use it in place of Google Custom Search on my own Web site?

drakaal 13y ago
You can use it in place of Google. https://www.mashape.com/stremor/stremor-search-results https://www.mashape.com/stremor/stremor-search-results The price is low enough that you should have no problem running adsense against results to make back the cost and turn a profit. Plus since we return Json you can do more styling to your liking. And we return the Social Icon/Avatar, the OpenGraph Image, and you get a summary of the page rather than a snippet, so I think you get a much better set of features for your users.
- dleskov 13y ago
  Sorry, "my own Web site" should have read "my company's Web site", with user forum, product knowledge base, tutorials, articles, PDF documents, and the like. Planting AdSense on it would be nonsense. We used to pay $100/year for Google Custom Search. They had problems processing our payment for this year's renewal, which they did not bother to resolve, so I've been looking for alternatives.
  - drakaal 13y ago
    You can try it out. put your companies name on the front of Samuru http://cnn.com.samuru.com http://cnn.com.samuru.com does cnn.com If you want to search your company just put mycompany.com on the front. That will let you see if you would like the results.
    - dleskov 13y ago
      It does not seem to work. This includes your cnn.com example. Your home page is displayed instead.
      - drakaal 13y ago
        Apparently the push of the "Why" feature broke something It will be back tomorrow. Sorry about that.
      - drakaal 13y ago
        Should be working now. http://time.com.samuru.com/?q=test http://time.com.samuru.com/?q=test http://wired.com.samuru.com/?q=test http://wired.com.samuru.com/?q=test
        dleskov 13y ago
        Ah, you did not mention the URL has to contain a query. I assumed that mydomain.com.samuru.com would either display all mydomain.com pages you have indexed, or otherwise indicate that I will be searching within mydomain.com.

by dleskov 13y ago

drakaal 13y ago

You can use it in place of Google. https://www.mashape.com/stremor/stremor-search-results https://www.mashape.com/stremor/stremor-search-results The price is low enough that you should have no problem running adsense against results to make back the cost and turn a profit. Plus since we return Json you can do more styling to your liking. And we return the Social Icon/Avatar, the OpenGraph Image, and you get a summary of the page rather than a snippet, so I think you get a much better set of features for your users.

dleskov 13y ago
Sorry, "my own Web site" should have read "my company's Web site", with user forum, product knowledge base, tutorials, articles, PDF documents, and the like. Planting AdSense on it would be nonsense. We used to pay $100/year for Google Custom Search. They had problems processing our payment for this year's renewal, which they did not bother to resolve, so I've been looking for alternatives.
- drakaal 13y ago
  You can try it out. put your companies name on the front of Samuru http://cnn.com.samuru.com http://cnn.com.samuru.com does cnn.com If you want to search your company just put mycompany.com on the front. That will let you see if you would like the results.
  - dleskov 13y ago
    It does not seem to work. This includes your cnn.com example. Your home page is displayed instead.
    - drakaal 13y ago
      Apparently the push of the "Why" feature broke something It will be back tomorrow. Sorry about that.
    - drakaal 13y ago
      Should be working now. http://time.com.samuru.com/?q=test http://time.com.samuru.com/?q=test http://wired.com.samuru.com/?q=test http://wired.com.samuru.com/?q=test
      - dleskov 13y ago
        Ah, you did not mention the URL has to contain a query. I assumed that mydomain.com.samuru.com would either display all mydomain.com pages you have indexed, or otherwise indicate that I will be searching within mydomain.com.