By Kieren McCarthy:Turbo10.com: Getting back on its feet
Google safe for a while yet
As many of you clearly noticed, following Friday's rave review of new search engine Turbo10, in which we argued it was a contender to Google's crown, the site promptly gave up under the demand and disappeared for the whole weekend and most of Monday too.
As difficult as scoring an own goal while shooting yourself in the foot may seem, Turbo10 managed it with aplomb. As literally hundreds of emails testified, Google does at least have the decency to stay up.
Which was all a great shame because the technology really is rather good - compiling, weighting and listing results from your own selection of thousands of different search engines worldwide.
However, the site is back up and if not yet sprinting round the track, it has at least limbered up and started jogging. We asked Turbo10 what had happened and when we could expect the great things it promises.
"Since your article we have received a huge increase in visitors," says Turbo10 CEO Nigel Hamilton. "Our server has almost melted under the load. We have been working furiously to manage the load and have re-implemented two new servers over the weekend. However we have reached the physical capacity of our hardware."
So, it's up, but take it easy. He continues: "We would like to apologise to our existing customers who have not been able to search and also to our new visitors. We are still in beta and the feedback we have received has been really appreciated. We will be upgrading to more new servers as soon as possible."
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