Jambalala

New Search Facility?

[IanTurner]

Does anyone have any information on this search facility - it appears to pull results from mamma.com but is not quite the same and the Serps are very clean.

www.jambalala.com

(edited by: Marcia at 8:20 am (utc) on Feb. 4, 2002)

[Brett_Tabke]

I've tried quite a few times to get to that url since I first saw your post Ian but can't (times out trying to connect). I'd not heard of it before. Is that the right url?

[keyplyr]

Came up for me and I saved it to look at a later date. Now I get a "cannot find server" message.

[diddlydazz]

I have tried and I can get it up.

I am trying to work out what SE is behind the results.

[awechen]

hi,

Jambalala is using few databases,
most are from our own database
rest from mamma and some linklist like DMOZ

--
andreas

[Ove]

Hi
I can not open it eighter

/Ove

[awechen]

jo ..
i was updating the webserver ...

now is works ...

(edited by: awechen at 10:04 am (gmt) on Dec. 10, 2001)

[Ove]

Looks quite similiar like fast results

/Ove

[IanTurner]

I came across it from a referral to one of my sites so just did some investigation. I hadn't heard of it before either, it is definitely there and running at the moment.

[backus]

awechen - could you tell us something about the Engine? Do you own it, or what? It would be nice if you could make this the first people's search engine.

[gethan]

I think awechen is a genuine Jambalala representative.. welcome to WmW awechen.

- Why does Jambalala imply quality?

- So ODP, Mamma, and custom DBs ... any other sources?

- Where do your results feature?

[awechen]

yes, I am a representative for jambalala. let me try to answer your questions, at the moment jambalala uses multiple databases (odp/mama/and our own). as soon as our own database will be big enough jambalala will be only running on this database (approx. 1 1/2 month from now). once everything is up and running the add_url will also work ... and this is when "the name implies, quality matters"

just to add: jambalala will soon offer an XML feed, so everybody will be welcome to run his/her own searchengine through jambalala´s XML feed.

[keyplyr]

What happened? www.jambalala.com now redirects to a XXX portal.

<URLs de-linked>

(edited by: Marcia at 8:24 am (utc) on Feb. 4, 2002)

[Marcia]

It's still OK in the Google cache, the title graphic is Flash. But when you click on a link (like privacy polity) I doubt if it's the original page coming up.

[google.com...]

You can see the redirect with view-source.

[Woz]

from the jambalala redirect page

-_- PhRacKed -_-

which would tend to sugegst hacked, or perhaps not...

Onya
Woz

[Marcia]

Woz, Ian posted Dec. 7, 2001 and it was OK. Dates from the netsol info:

Record last updated on 04-Feb-2002.
Record expires on 13-Aug-2002.
Record Created on 13-Aug-2001.

So you might be right.

[IanTurner]

Looks like one of three possibilities to me

1 Hack
2 Ran out of funding
3 Deliberate scam

I mailed them using the contact in Google cache - so will see if I get a reply.

If it is a deliberate scam then I admit that I was taken in completely.

[Marcia]

The company that owns the domain name is here in LA. I sent an email and it bounced back. Also the tracker that's on there - that site is bringing up a 404.

[awechen]

hi,

WOW :)
first thanks fot the email Marcia :)

jaba is right now offline :)
reson :we redesign the search system and switch over to our own database.
our own database has now 25,4 mil. webpages
indext.
is an volume of 1.93 TB ( terra byte) data

i will inform the bbs asap the system is online

andreas

[Air]

It is offline? it redirects to a x x x site, are you aware of that?

[JonB]

hehe, yes, redirects to x x x site .

1 minute later it doesnt redirect to x x x anymore.

ps: now i see that i made a mistake: jambala.com doesnt redirect and jambalala.com redirects.

(edited by: JonB at 2:43 pm (utc) on Feb. 4, 2002)

(edited by: JonB at 2:43 pm (utc) on Feb. 4, 2002)

[lawman]

Definitely redirets to tplx site. Wassupwidat?

Lawman

[JonB]

are we talking about the same site? I checked jambala.com

jambalala.com redirects to x*x.

Which one is correct? According to awechen's profile the one that redirects to xx-x
Jon

[awechen]

will be fixed in few hour's

wrong DNS record.

andreas