incrediBILL - 5:46 pm on Sep 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

Spam comment doesn't add up

I've seen some real junk sites before that republish the same content over and over and over under different domains and they all show up in the same results. It's really easy to spot in a visual search engine because they used the same page template for every domain name.

we have never had a site owner complain bout us listing them

That's because you're not a significant source of traffic yet and you honor robot.txt so some of us already have your site blocked which is why you haven't heard anything ;)

Let's imagine for a moment that fate deals you an incredible hand and suddenly you have 50% of Google's search traffic tomorrow. Now imagine that all those webmasters living off advertising revenue see 50% of their revenue vaporize over night because people can read the content on SearchMe instead of having to click through to their site.

Now imagine your only offer is to remove them from your index, which is no visibility in your site whatsoever which doesn't fix the problem, it only changes the problem as visitors still aren't coming to their site.

The issue is the screen shot itself, they shouldn't be so big, or sharp enough to be completely legible, that people can use your site as a replacement of the original website.

If webmasters start pulling out of your index to avoid that issue, then you're less relevant as a resource and people will look elsewhere.

Not sure how old your machine was

I was running Firefox on a old Thinkpad which probably has 256MB of ram. After I had trouble the first time I was watching with the Windows Task Manager running and the more pages SearchMe loaded it just bloated the FF footprint until the hard drive started thrashing. Just tried it again and it bloated up to about 150MB footprint and climbing when it started thrashing and literally brought the machine to a crawl.

Doesn't happen on the newer machines, well the bloat does, but the machines have enough memory to handle it.

Besides, it's a Flash thing, not sure there's much you can do about it.