T10 = search engine + pay-per-click (PPC) advertising network

T10 Cluster - Goes West

noreply@blogger.com (Nigel Hamilton) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:58:00 +0000

Today we are moving portions of our network to the west coast of America. This means lower latency for our US publishing partners on the west coast and more publishing opportunities for our advertisers.

T10 Live

noreply@blogger.com (Nigel Hamilton) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:00 +0000

We're really happy with how the new T10 system has been performing over the last two months.

Our ClickScreen™ technology is doing a great job of filtering out poor quality clicks - which means improved return on investment (ROI) for advertisers.

If you publish sponsored links and have not yet been in contact then consider partnering with us.

T10 Logo

noreply@blogger.com (Nigel Hamilton) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:05:00 +0000

Here is the new logo for t¹⁰:

New Trails in Search - Trexy and Turbo10

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:00:00 +0000

New Trails in Search - Trexy and Turbo10 By Kalena Jordan

I'm often sent media releases about new search engines or software that all claim to be a first in the industry for something. These "exciting concepts in search" rarely turn out to be anything but Google wannabes dressed in a more exciting skin.

So my attitude to a Media Release about up and coming search engines Trexy and Turbo 10 was quite sceptical. But I have to admit, these two do have the wow factor AND it appears the technology kudos to create an impact.

Trexy uses the trails created by other (anonymous) searchers on other search engines and stores them for access by new searchers. To use the trails of others or blaze your own trail, you do need to download the Trexy Trailbar, but the concept is pretty interesting. The British Computer Society thought so too - Trexy won a BCS IT Professional award for "technical novelty and inventiveness" this week.

Turbo 10 is probably the more exciting of the two projects. It claims to be the first search engine in the world to uncover information in the "Invisible Web" which is estimated to be 500 times greater than the information currently indexed by crawler-based engines such as Google and Yahoo. Utilising connections to over 800 search engines, Turbo10 enables users to directly search these databases in real-time and search up to 10 Deep Net engines simultaneously. I've given Turbo 10 a whirl and the results are impressive!

Not bad for a couple of Aussie siblings living in London. Congratulations to brother and sister team Megan and Nigel. I hope I send more eyeballs your way.

Turbo10 Cluster Turns 50!

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:00:00 +0000

Turbo10.com, has experienced a large increase in load recently. The Turbo10 search network is now receiving more than 1 billion searches per month. To service this load we have had to increase the size of the cluster to 50 nodes.

We've learnt lots of hard lessons about web scalability in the past and maybe one day Trexy will need 50 nodes too.

Microsoft Award for Innovation Through Technology - Winner!

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:00:00 +0000

Last night, Nigel and I attended the British Chamber of Commerce awards dinner in Guildford.

We won the Microsoft Award for Innovation Through Technology for the South East Region.

We now go through to the final round and compete in the national level.

Partner With Us: Software Licensing

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:00:00 +0000

Turbo10 has licensed its software to a number of organisations such as
Lund University, Sweden and BTLooksmart, London.

We non-exclusively license the following software:

Deep Net Adapter System
Deep Net Adapter Probing System
My Collections System
Metasearch Engine
Advertiser Bid Management System
Content Management System
Credit Card Processing System
XML Feed Aggregator
Client-side Relevance Ranking and Topic Clustering

Email us at partner@turbo10.com to discuss licensing our technology.

My Collections Tour

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:00:00 +0000

To find out how to create your own collection of engines.
Take the My Collections Tour.

Search Deeper: My Collections

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:00:00 +0000

Create your own collections of engines to search the Web.

The benefits are:

Suit yourself. You decide which engines meet your needs. Choose from 800+ engines.
Save time. Search 10 engines simultaneously.
You're in control. Edit or delete a collection at any time.
Totally private. We do not share your collection.
It's free.

Add Search Engine Tour

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:00:00 +0000

Take the Add a Search Engine tour and find out how you can suggest an engine to Turbo10 in three easy steps.

Step 1. Enter the search box URL. You need to supply the URL of the page that contains the search box. Press the Get Search Box button.

Step 2. Enter a search. Use the scroll bars to help locate the search box on the page. Enter a search term in the search box. Use a search term that will produce at least two results. Submit the search.
Step 3a. Click on two search result links. Find the search results of your search and click on one of the links. You may need to scroll down a little to avoid clicking on sponsored or advertised links.Step 3b. After clicking on the first result link, you will see a pop up message asking you to click on the second result link. Press OK.

Step 3c. Click on a second result link in the results page.

Whilst Turbo10 can connect to hundreds of engines, we cannot create connections to every engine. In these cases, you will receive notification that we are unable to connect to it. This can happen at either Step 2 or 3.

If we can connect to your suggested engine it will appear immediately in our Deep Net engines list. You can now add this engine into your collection and begin searching immediately.

Search Deeper: Add a Search Engine

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:00:00 +0000

Turbo10 connects to search engines via 'adapters'.

Adapters are created by a simple three step process:
1. Enter the URL of the search box.
2. Enter a search query.
3. Click on 2 result links.

If the process is successful the engine is connected immediately.

All engines are different, so we can't always guarantee a connection.

To learn more about adding a search engine take the tour.

Once you've added all your favourite engines you can group them into your own My Collections.

Search Deeper: Search the Deep Net

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:00:00 +0000

Turbo10 can connect you to thousands of search engines containing information overlooked by engines like Yahoo and Google. This previously untapped information has been called the 'invisible web' or as we call it: the Deep Net.

Searching the Deep Net on Turbo10 is free and means you can:

Find more quality information from specialist, topic-specific engines.
Directly access online government, business and university databases.
Search these databases in real-time, the moment you enter a search.
Save time. You can search up to 10 Deep Net engines simultaneously.

Browse Faster: Engine Filtering

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:51:00 +0000

Select the "Engines" tab to see a list of engines and the number of results returned.

You can choose to filter results from a specific engine by selecting it from the list.

Browse Faster: Topic Clustering

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:00:00 +0000

Turbo10 Topics lists the top 10 related topic clusters for every search.

It helps you browse faster because you can 'home in' quickly on the most relevant topic.

For example, if you search on 'salsa', Turbo10's algorithm identifies 'dancing' and 'recipes' as two distinct topics.

Browse Faster: Dynamic Relevance Ranking

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:00:00 +0000

Turbo10 returns results as quick as possible. We respond as soon as the quickest engine so you don't have to wait for slow engines.

But sometimes slow engines have more relevant results - so we dynamically re-shuffle the results in your browser.

This means:

The most relevant results get to the top.
We also remove any repeats.
And we give slow engines a chance to answer your query.
You can see the results loading in the Search-o-Meter.

Browse Faster: Search-o-Meter

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:00:00 +0000

Turbo10 takes the scrollbar out of searching so you can browse faster. The Search-o-Meter tool enables you to:

* Quickly move back and forth through the results using the arrow buttons
* See the progress of results loading into your browser.
* See how many result pages we have found for your search.
* Jump instantly to any result page by clicking on a pink bar.

About.com Article: Search the Deep Web

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:00:00 +0000

Search the Deep Web with Turbo10 By Wendy Boswell.

Turbo10 is a search engine that trawls the Invisible, or Deep Web for results. From the site:"Turbo10 is a metasearch engine that provides a universal interface to Deep Net™ engines." Turbo10 connects you to deeper, more quality information from niche-specific search engines, and enables the searcher to access databases (such as government, busines and university databases). Basically, Turbo10 has cut out some of the middleman work you would have to do to get to these resources on your own.

Deep Web Search with Turbo10

The Turbo10 home page is simple and easy to use. The search query box is directly in the middle, with a drop down menu titled "Turbo10 Collections" to the right (we'll get back to that in a minute).

To search over 800 Deep Net engines (that's What Turbo10 claims to search, anyway - I could find no verification of this claim), all you need to do is enter a query into the search box. Here's my example: I typed in the word "gazelle grazing habits", and got some pretty respectable results, including information about Thomson's gazelle, a page from the Encyclopedia Brittanica, and oddly enough a link to a Yahoo Search results page for "gazelle grazing habits." Okay, so the results need to be tweaked a bit to return only relevant pages, not more results pages, but still, I found some good information.

Turbo10 Search Features

You will notice as you're doing searches on Turbo10 that a purple progress bar will be flashing at you, as well as the search results page loading and reloading until all your results are in. Meta search engines are notoriously slow because they're returning results not from just one database, but multiple databases. Turbo10 has attempted to make this waiting process a bit more user-friendly by letting the searcher know exactly how long of a wait they might be in for.

You should also notice that with your search results come "Topic Clusters" to the left. Topic Clusters are "the top 10 related topic clusters for every search. It helps you browse faster because you can 'home in' quickly on the most relevant topic. For example, if you search on 'salsa', Turbo10's algorithm identifies 'dancing' and 'recipes' as two distinct topics." My search for "gazelle grazing habits" brought back the topic clusters of "search, animals, decades, thomson, safari, focus, humans, vervet topic, african." Some of these I can see where they would fit, but the rest? Not very relevant.

Turbo10 Deep Web Search Collections

Probably one of the best things about Turbo10 is the ability to build your own "collection", or list, of search engines you'd like to search with. The text link to build your Turbo10 collection is located directly underneath the drop-down menu on the Turbo10 home page. Click on this, and you're taken to a page where you can create your own from a huge list of specialized databases and Internet search engines. While this feature is cool it would be nice to have some description of what these various databases are actually about. Once you have all your picks, you can choose a title for it, and then it's added to the main Turbo10 search page, all ready for you to search with. One thing: Turbo10 asks for your email address and this is their reasoning behind this request:

We can keep you informed of the status of your Collections
We need to make sure you are the real owner of your Collections and your email helps us do this.
We need your email so you can easily reload your Collections on a different computer.
We guarantee never to disclose your email address to a 3rd party.

Turbo10 - Why Should I Use Turbo10?

Here's the thing. I think that Turbo10 has a lot of potential. It came up with some relatively good search results, and it's got some nice features. However, here are some of my reservations:

Search results that come up with more search results? That's just plain lazy. Turbo10 needs to work on its relevancy, ranking, and retrieval in order to get a return visit from me.
The collections idea is great. However, I had no idea what most of the presented databases and search engines were focused on, and therefore it was difficult to build a good collection. In addition, I don't like giving my email address out willy-nilly since I don't want spam cannons aimed at me.
The About pages for Turbo10 are buried deep, and there is no way to link to any of them ( that's why you didn't see any links in this article other than to the main Turbo10 page). I found this strange and very inefficient.

Overall, I really do believe that Turbo10 has a lot of potential, but they need to do a few housecleaning changes first. I think that you would be better off searching the Deep Web with my collection of Deep Web Gateways.

Read the full article here.

Turbo10 Presents at Search Engine Strategies Conference Munich

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:00:00 +0000

Turbo10 Search Engine contributed to the proceedings at the annual Search Engine Strategies conference in Germany today.

Megan Hamilton, Turbo10's Co-founder and head of Marketing, gave a presentation in German about the Deep Net and how searchers can use Turbo10 to create their own collections of engines.

The Search Engine Strategies conference in Germany is being held in Munich.

PC Pro: Better than Google?

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:00:00 +0000

Turbo10 features in PC Pro Magazine, March 2005.

Partner With Us: Advertiser Referral Program

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:00:00 +0000

Earn money by referring new advertisers to us. You can earn an on-going 4% percent of their advertising spend.

Why recommend an advertiser to Turbo10?

We offer:

£25 accounts which all goes towards clicks.
Low bid prices starting at £0.03 pence.
No account set-up fees.
Increased exposure. Turbo10 handles over 900 million searches monthly.
Immediate campaign activation.

Once registered, we will supply you with an unique referral identification link that you can insert into your website, online newsletters, and direct emails. We will also supply you with Turbo10 logos and promotional text snippets that you can use on your site. For more information, please email: partner@turbo10.com.

Partner With Us: Get Paid Search Results

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:00:00 +0000

Earn revenue by including our paid search results on your site.

The advantages for you are:

Increased revenue.
Broader, relevant search results for your users.
Partner account to access daily revenue reports.
Prompt monthly payment of advertising revenue.

The advantages for us are:

Our advertisers' results reach a broader audience.
Our advertisers receive more clicks.
We share this extra revenue with you, our partner.

If you would like to integrate our XML feed of paid results please email: partner@turbo10.com.

"It's blindingly fast"

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:00:00 +0000

User Feedback:

"I took your search engine for a drive and thoroughly enjoyed the experience." M.Green (askbob.co.uk)

"It's blindingly fast." B. Emmerson (chello.nl)

"Cool...new page...thanks for being around." Curator (conwaycorp.net)

"Turbo10 is truly an amazing search engine surpassing all others. I have yet to find a no match to any word or phrase that I`ve entered. Really what else can be said?." (vingrey)

"About time there was a decent search engine. I think that it is the greatest." Rick (picknowl.com.au)

"This is the best search site I have seen. I am sending your link to all my co-workers and friends. Keep up the good, no great!, work." Wsproul (dmv.com)

"Excellent performance, well done." Ian B. (newberryint.co.uk)

Turbo10 Presents at Search Engine Meeting 2004

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:00:00 +0000

Turbo10 Search Engine contributed to the proceedings at the annual Search Engine Meeting 2004 today.

Turbo10's CEO and head of Technology, Nigel Hamilton, gave a presentation about the background and the technology of the Meta Search Engine, highlighting the company's unique technology to connect to databases in the Deep Net or invisible web.

The Search Engine Meeting is a two day conference bringing together search engine developers, academics and businesses in the industry.

This year the conference was held in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Turbo10 announces new technology to create a universal searching memory

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:00:00 +0000

London based Turbo10 Search Engine announced today the launch of a new technology inspired by scientist and visionary, Dr. Vannevar Bush, who in the 1940's shared his vision of creating a collective memory by recording peoples' trails through information.

Turbo10 Trails™ will implement the major part of Vannevar Bush's grand vision described in his 1945 seminal work, 'As We May Think.' In his visionary paper, Bush posited a device called a 'Memex', an enhanced supplement to personal and community memory created by trail blazers, "those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record." (Bush's Paper).

"Current search engines keep no memory of your last search. Each day millions of searches are conducted and human searchers sift through millions of pages to find what they're looking for. What if a search engine could harness all this human effort? A way of recording all the trails spent looking through the common record of the Web," Nigel Hamilton, inventor and CEO of Turbo10 said.

"Through historical accident or omission the major thrust of Vannevar Bush's vision has remained unrealised, that is, until now," the inventor said.

This vision has now become a reality. Turbo10 Trails™ is in research and development now and will move out into BETA later this year.

A patent is pending for this technology.

Turbo10 Wins London Chamber of Commerce Business Award

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Hamilton) — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:00:00 +0000

Turbo10 won the Award for Best use of Website and eCommerce. The Award, sponsored by Seek.net, was presented to Turbo10 at the annual Docklands Business Club Business Awards ceremony.

On receiving the award, Nigel Hamilton Turbo10's CEO said, "We are delighted to win the Docklands Business Award given the tough competition in our category. It is great to have the support of the Docklands Business Group behind us."

Applicants for the Best Use of Website and eCommerce Award were assessed on how their web applications best serve the purposes of the businesses, their customers and potential customers.

The event took place on Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at The Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich.