SusySearch - South African search engine

[EliteWeb]

While surfing my search engine headlines I ran into this search engine which offers users the ability to add url [susysearch.com] free of charge.

The new search engine, SusySearch.com, has around 35 000 sites indexed and will launch once it has over 100 000 sites indexed, probably by July...

Once the URL has been supplied, Susy will crawl the site and extract the first level information needed....more [itweb.co.za]

The site SusySearch webpage is here: www.susysearch.com

When robot information is available post it here.

[jeremy goodrich]

How does it know a south african site from a UK site, or Australian, or USA website?

Just curious :) That's a pretty small index, but perhaps the web they are focusing on is rather small itself? Regional engines, done properly, can only be a good thing for those in that region though.

I wish them good luck.

[EliteWeb]

<META NAME="SUSYSEARCH" CONTENT="DONT INDEX">

If this Meta Tag is inserted into the main page, Susy will not search that page and will not search any further into your site....

Is that standard? Does this indicate it doesn't follow robots.txt?

[Paul in South Africa]

That's a pretty small index, but perhaps the web they are focusing on is rather small itself?

The South African web is relatively unsophisticated in many ways. DMOZ only lists about 4500 sites under Regional/Africa/South Africa. There are other directories which accept free submission of URLs with an "Southern African" theme which have provided (an still do provide) significant traffic to some of my clients. The best known (within South Africa) of these are Ananzi and Aardvark.