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..."Turbo10 searches the Deep Net - a vast array of specialist databases that range from business associations, universities, libraries, and government departments. These specialist search engines are inaccessible to traditional crawler-based engines such as Altavista.com and google.com who can only index static pages. Turbo10 is the first commercial metasearch engine to connect to hundreds of these specialised engines en masse, broadening the depth and range of search results for the online searcher."
Apparently users will be able to "personalise" search groups so you can select a group of engines to do with news and name that group, well...news!
The new engine is apparently still in beta and at the time of writing is currently down.
One to watch out for I thinks.
[webmasterworld.com...]
Shak
Hey, ya know what...I havent't a clue, but from 1st impressions, it doesn't sound like it as they're, as I said, still in beta.
No this is a metasearch with deep web capabilities. I do not think they have ever been a PPC.
a search on [web.archive.org...]
and [web.archive.org...]
shows what i thought:
You can list your site with Turbo10 on a Pay Per Click basis: the most cost-effective way to drive targeted traffic to your site.So how does it work?
You list with Turbo10 by selecting search terms that are relevant to your site. Then you determine how much you are willing to pay on a per click basis for each of those search terms. You only pay when a searcher clicks on your listing. The more you bid, the higher you appear in the search results.
I am NOT saying they are NOT any good, but shame The Register failed to mention ANY of the above stuff.
Shak
I stand corrected. :) Couldn't raise Turbo10 but I didn't remember that part. The ability to add search engines is slick though. It was very fast in adding my directories last week.
Unfortunately the site only seems to work with IE and NN.
Looks like all the attention from The Register crashed them.
Yup. cannot get any sign of life there. Cannot be that many reading the register and clicking! Usually mentions on WebmasterWorld get a few hundred, but nothing outrageous!
with a headline like that, I think 1000s will be visiting, and to top it off it IS the # news story On news.google.com for keyword "google"
Shak
Looks like it.
[turbo10.com...]
"Turbo10 offers advertisers a secure Turbo10 Advertiser Account enabling advertisers to log in any time to manage bids and increase funds.
Pay-per-click advertising is the most targeted and cost-effective method to match buyers with sellers online. Currently the Turbo10 Search Engine and our network of partner sites receives approximately 6 million searches a month.
To join over 800 advertisers who have already listed with Turbo10 and start promoting your website, click here."
Somehow fails to tie up with the message that now get on Turbo10
"Our search function is currently disabled. We are experiencing a large load. Please come back later. "
Agreed. One almost gets the impression that the journo, or website is gettin sommat from the endorsement - It's the kind'a "trick" click that always gets my goat.
Turbo10 was down for numerous hours after The Register published the article. Now it simply has a message saying "Our search function is currently disabled. We are experiencing a very high load. Please try again later."
Folks wake up and smell the coffee! You just got a huge number of potential users to come and visit you, and you weren't capable of delivering at that point in time.
I like to see competition in the SE market, but you seem to be determined to fail!
Also just noticed its really messing up "mycollections" I do a search with the turbo 10 collection then the next thing I know its searching under my recipie collection grrr.
Steve
Yeah but at least they have something decent to work with that could become great:)
But can someone fill me in? aren't they simply taking other SE's results and rearranging them (perhaps intelligently, but still)?
How can they be competition to google (as they claim they want to be) if they rely on google for their own results? It's kind of a logical fallacy no?
so if they succeed, and take google's traffic, google suffers, which eventually translates to poorer google serps, which leads to poor turbo10 results. course I could be misinterpreting
ummm.... maybe they'll give google some good ideas to steal.
