New Search engine, check out my new site !

CΛSTΞX · 12-13-2009, 09:35 PM

I hope you'll like my new site;

www.fiberlook.com

I am waiting your comments.

adamdecaf · 12-13-2009, 11:34 PM

1) If I didn't know that this was a search engine I would have a hard time figuring out what I'm to do. Maybe some text describing what the site is would help (you have the space on the page)

2) When I search for news the bottom has what looks to be a detailed description of what news is. If I'm searching I'm not going to read that, I want short concise statements. Maybe three sentences, any more and I just skip it.

3) Clicking on the images and having them expand is nice, my only complaint is that I should be able to click anywhere (off image) and have it minimize back.

4) The gallery on the home page is nice, you could introduce another line of videos that are playable.

5) API, if you want your site to take off I would strongly suggest an API. There will be some developers out there who want something like this and you can fill that void.

6) You're missing a doctype tag, it's just a minor annoyance.

7) JavaScript should always be at the bottom of your page. (Examples)

8) This is just a personal issue, but you're missing a lot of quotes around attributes and values. It could (but shouldn't) cause issues.

9) You really should have alt attributes on your image tags, once links to direct searches (?title=ferrari) are posted you will want search engines to know what the images are. (It gives the image hosters more credit, and it makes your site look more professional/reliable/accurate.

10) Your server is showing. Telling anyone what PHP/Apache version you're running can give them free info that they can better attack you with. (Say there is a flaw in a version of PHP, they could see that you're on that flawed version and then exploit it to insert data.)

8/10 -- It's a really nice site, I think that you know what you're doing and it could go pretty far.

ETbyrne · 12-13-2009, 11:59 PM

The image results are good, but the text results are really lacking. You may want to consider showing more image results at one time. All in all the site is off to a good start.

Quote:

10) Your server is showing. Telling anyone what PHP/Apache version you're running can give them free info that they can better attack you with. (Say there is a flaw in a version of PHP, they could see that you're on that flawed version and then exploit it to insert data.)

This really shouldn't be an issue, many popular websites let it be known what technology they use.

CΛSTΞX · 12-14-2009, 12:26 AM

Thanks mates. Nice comments.

adamdecaf · 12-14-2009, 12:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ETbyrne

This really shouldn't be an issue, many popular websites let it be known what technology they use.

You're right, it's not. Some people just like to lock down everything they can, others don't.

delayedinsanity · 12-14-2009, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adamdecaf

You're right, it's not. Some people just like to lock down everything they can, others don't.

I was hoping it would quote both responses, but eh.

I'm in agreement with Adam on this one, you should lock that stuff down. Many of those popular web sites have major IT teams with people who specialize in security to take care of business. Smaller web sites should do what they can to remove themselves from being a target, and when it comes to Apache this means at the very least you should have the following;

bash Code:

ServerSignature Off
ServerTokens Prod
TraceEnable Off

You should always put more effort into making sure your iptables configuration is on lock down, but these three simple settings in Apache can frighten even the loneliest of script kiddies.

CΛSTΞX · 12-15-2009, 01:04 PM

Of course not, what was your search and what is your browser ?

HikariShiki · 12-24-2009, 04:09 PM

I tried it, seems to work for me. Returns wikipedia entries and images and a youtube video. Really interesting. Good to know its possible to grab info from wiki. I think 6 images are enough, its not supposed to be an image gallery. Similar to adam, didnt initially think its a search engine at first glance

Oh, on the search result I got this:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:01:03 UTC

Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 39
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://www.fiberlook.com/script/slideitmoo-1.1.js