mysearchii.com

Hi guys,

Appreciate the feedback on this site as commendable.(most of the time) keen to get some feedback on a search engine just launched globally.

Regards,

Alex Greig
CEO, Co Founder
Searchii Limited
mysearchii.com

Your biggest problem will be losing your visitors to searchii.com

If your domain name is in trouble from day one, the future is none too bright.

You'll need to change the name to my****.com - where you also own ****.com

A strong brand is vital, and you are sharing yours. By way of example - your username promotes the parasite - not your own site.

Unfortunate

fully understand your comment. You have to undersand we built our brand here in New Zealand and Australia at www.searchii.co.nz or www.searchii.com.au and have now launched a us and UK service. We own searchii.us i don't think that would give us the confidence from users?? Have been through the process of acquisition of searchii.com but the company who owns is korean, not used in many years and is extremely hard to contact.

It's a fact of life that you need the .com before you start - if someone else has it, then you need to pick another name.

Sorry if it sounds picky - but it matters - and if you grow, it will matter even more.

I'm sure you can improve on searchii anyway!

We have acquired searchii.com and will be setting up on this domain once our DC has been created.

watch this space

Very, very good news

Now, back to the original question ...

What's new about your search?

What's special?

Who do you see yourselves as most similar to: Google, Yahoo!, Live , Ask or Dogpile?

Yes we are all extremely happy with the outcome. Should be online within the next day or so.

I'll answer your questions in order:

What's new about your search? We understand, and you understand we're not re-inventing the search wheel here. searchii is an alternative online search provider. I use the word alternate as a 'another option' for online search. Our main POD is our focus on content relevant search results, clean fresh design with fast responce times for our users.

What's special? One of the cool little features we have developed is a preview window for each search result. This enables our users to preview and navigate through search results whilst remaining on our site.

Another strong point we have to make is that our company focus is on innovative ways to search for content,products,services,businesses online. We have some really cool search options due to launch this month like finding a local item in your area from online auction sites like ebay, ubid etc. So we are constantly evolving our technology offerings based around our user requests.

We are also focussed on providing local search options. Hence if you visit any other country specific domain like searchii.co.nz or searchii.com.au you'll notice we have search facilities to return only local websites etc. Feedback has been extremely positive.

Who do you see yourselves as most similar to? I guess we've tried to take a peice of success from all past and present successful search providors. I strongly believe firstly users care about relevancy. Secondly speed of service (we're an impatient lot of people these days) and thirdly trust. Users like to know that whatever time of day they need to find something their preferred search providor is there.

I could list a whole lot of reasons and benefits about using searchii. We're fanatical about search, and take everything personally about our service. We take our advertising accounts personally, our staff and users. We're tying to bring back the good old days, when user satisfaction was key, not maximization of pixels for a $$ return.

We want users to take ownership of searchii (no were not offering shares..yet!) but in a sense of 'this is my search engine' and they give a crap about me and what i like and don't. We're not corporates, we're users just like you.

Cheers,
Alex









[ Message was edited by: searchii 07/15/2008 04:52 pm ]

Hi Alex ... looks great from the search's I performed ... and from a purely selfish perspective, all my websites rank well in it for their key phrases ... so ta.

Look forward to seeing your URL as a referring site in my weblogs

Thats great to hear.

With regards to referring URLS, tell enough people about us and i'm sure we can help there. Or even give us a digg plug.

Thats another direction all together. LOL

Umm I've seen this, I've come across a blog post talking about it. [link]
But I can't load your mysearchii.com . Great option providing localized search

Few points:

1 - you need to 301 redirect mysearchii to searchii.com , or remove the mysearchii.com version from your first post, etc.

2 - noticed a couple times when the URL next to the preview link contained bolded text, the preview window came up with an error - it's intermittent, and resolved each time I refreshed.

3 - relevancy issues - I see an awful lot of results from a free web article site called goarticle.com. In fact, when I did a search for the term jeep cherokee, my own Jeep site ranks in at around #42, right behind a goarticles.com listing that is about Packing for Spring Break or some such unrelated point. The phrase I searched for isn't even in the article.

Bottom line - relevancy needs work. I know this is a BIG issue on your end, but it's the ONLY reason people use the engines they do. Well, not the only, but get it wrong and they ignore you almost completely. Getting it right is expected. being different than Google isn't really just enough.