Simon's Crazy Websites

Saturday, August 01, 2009

I'm making the next big search engine using PHP and mySQL

I'm working on a search engine. That is I'm making a search engine from scratch using PHP and mySQL. The major challenges are

1. Handle terabytes of data
2. Understand a lot of different dialects, misinterpretations and misspellings of HTML code found in actual web pages on the internet.
3. Make ranking algorithms that find the right pages for a search query.

I'm currently in the proccess of moving the database from my shared hosting account with 2GB storage to a VPS server with 16GB storage. This will if everything goes well increase the index size from 50,000 pages to 250,000 pages

You can find it here: SecretSearchEngineLabs.com

Saturday, September 20, 2008

SEO Forum White Hat Black Belts

I recently joined a forum (actually it's some kind of web 2.0 community)for SEO professionals. It's called White Hat Black Belts and is run by search expert Dan Thies.

So far the discussions have given a lot of useful info and I think this one stands a good chanse to by my SEO forum of choise in the future.

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Don't Use RegisterFly

A warning to all who consider buying domains and hosting from RegisterFly.com. Don't do it, at least not now. I have had my domains with them for over a year with not too much problems I must admit. But just recently when I tried to renew one of my domains everything went crazy.

The domain just wouldnt renew, I have tried several times, contacted support which every time says they have some problems and I should try again it will work now. But it never works.
Not only that, to make sure the next domain in line gets renewed in time I put that one on renewal early. Guess what happens? They try to renew it 30 times.

Luckily there seems to be a cap of 10 years so now it expires in 2016, not 2036 and I only have to pay them $89 instead of $267. I'm still waiting for them to refund and reverse the extra years with no luck.

So my advice is, stay away from RegisterFly.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

eXtreme Business Makeover

I just ordered this EXTREMELY expensive marketing cource, it a set of video recordings on DVD from a business consultation with Mark Joyner. Really hope it will prove to be worth it's price...

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

IEEE-754 Floating-Point Conversion from Floating-Point to Hexadecimal

Online tool to convert between IEEE-754 floating point and binary representation.

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Russian Watches - Vostok watches, RussArmy watches, Attache watches, Kremlin watches

Official representative of "Vostik Watch Makers" in the USA. This site sells Russian made watches, a lot of models with stainless steel bracelets.

Sunday, December 05, 2004

New Page 1

A free online New Testament Audio Bible (The Authorized King James Version) by Gospel Truth of St. Petersburg

Saturday, December 04, 2004

Pure Postscript Barcode Writer

a barcode generator in pure postscript, just substitute the barcode string with your own string and send it all to the postscript capable printer and it will print your barcode.

Monday, November 22, 2004

Hebrew Numbers and Counting

This page explains how to form numbers in the Hebrew laphabet. (In Hebreq the normal letters are used to spell out numbers too)

Sunday, November 21, 2004

Is the Correct Pronounciation Known?

A comprehencive study of how Gods name Yahweh should be pronounced. The matter is complicated because the Jews themselves has for many centuries never read out the name loud and thus there is no verbal record of the pronounciation.