WebTalkGuys Radio Show: Interview With Turbo10s CEO

WebTalkGuys Radio Show, Hosted by Rob Greenlee and WebGirl Dana.

Listen to Nigel's interview using Windows Media here:
http://www.webtalkguys.com/msm/webtalk-6-28-2003-turbo10.asx

Turbo10 Invited to IADIS Conference in Lisbon

London based Turbo10 search engine demonstrated its Deep Net search engine technology at the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) conference today.

This new technology is based on a technical paper titled: The Mechanics of a Deep Net Metasearch Engine.

The technical paper outlines new automated techniques to retrieve information from hundreds of topic specific engines on the Internet that are currently overlooked by traditional crawler-based engines such as Altavista.com and google.com.

According to the paper, Turbo10 is the first commercial metasearch engine to connect to hundreds of specialised engines en masse, broadening the depth and range of search results for the online searcher.

The Mechanics of a Deep Net Metasearch Engine is being displayed in poster format at IADIS. The conference is taking place from the 3-6 June in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Register: Turbo10.com: Getting Back On Its Feet.

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."

Read the full article here.

Mac Plus: Mieux que Google? Better than Google?

You can read the article about Turbo10 here: Mieux que Google? Better than Google?

"Bloody Fantastic"

User Feedback: "The Sunday Mail Newspaper had a brief article on your new search engine and I have trialled it quite a few times and it is bloody fantastic! Fast and accurate - cutting through the rubbish and pointing to the exact info I need. Some many great references returned from the one simple query. A job well done. Thank you." Peter Redden (Redden Illustration)

"Just wanted to say that I did not believe this search engine would be any better than the hoards of existing ones. Well, I was wrong. It gives a lot of relevant hits and it does it soooo quickly. I now use this search engine more than any other. Congratulations on a job well done." J. Clarke (MurrayTel.com.au)

"KUDOS! Turbo10 earns everybit of recognition for a First Class search engine. Keep up the great work!" Red Eagle (Lewiston.com)

Turbo10: An Alternative to Google?

Read the article: Turbo10: An Alternative to Google?