Abacho Search Engine

[Brett_Tabke]

[abacho.co.uk...]

I keep running into their spider [webmasterworld.com] from time to time in logs:

Who can tell me about the se? What are the conditions for addition?

I've filled out the addurl [abacho.co.uk] a few times, and it visits, but the site (a .co.uk) doesn't ever show up.

[IanTurner]

I know nothing about them but just took a look, their professional search facility looks neat. You can specify the weighting of different modifiers in the search such as URL, Title and the like.

I haven't seen their spider either - but just submitted a few URLs both .com and .co.uk to see if there is any effect.

[heini]

Abacho is based in Germany. Small player, less than 1% of SE traffic.
In Germany they do a premium submission, where you have to call them(!), or download some piece of software - costs per submission something like 2-5$.

Like many small players lately they seem to be in financial trouble.

All in all nothing to lose sleep about.

[ulstrup]

Don't know for sure, but I'd say its German (abacho.de) moving over the channel. Actually you can do country specific searches on the german site, I did submit a .net site to the german version, not in. The .net site has links to a .co.uk site, which can be found at abacho.co.uk (was never submitted)

Try submitting to the german version:

at the bottom, second link, "seite anmelden".

Or try the European Forum, Heini usually knows a lot about Germany.

[ulstrup]

Heini, you're just too fast ;)

[engine]

Abacho is a network with a number of country-specific sites. See this page at Abacho [endemann.com] for details.

I've seen some traffic, although, not a lot, and, the spider doesn't come around often enough for my liking. ;)

Additionally, a quick search test on the database shows it is relatively small, compared to Google/AV.

Added - everyone posting at once.

[IanTurner]

News on Abacho submissions:

21:15 PM - 05-Mar - Submission
17:00 PM - 06-Mar - Spidered

[heini]

18:00 PM - 06-Dec - Indexed ? ;)