Today, with all the climate crisis facts that are being presented to us each and every week, we believe it’s important for us at Entireweb to stand up and do what we can to help save the planet.

Already, we have started this process by looking at alternative power sources to help run our data centers. The first step in becoming more climate smart is to purchase what’s often called “green electricity”.

Our green electricity is a renewable kind of energy that originates from hydropower, and has considerably lower emission levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) than fossil fuel powered energy plants.

This is our first step in becoming a climate smart search engine, and we will work hard to make the future even greener!

At the moment, we are crawling the web and gathering information for what will become the search index of the new search engine at Entireweb. As you probably know, and what we also mentioned earlier in this blog, this is a very important factor when it comes to creating a search engine.

Want your site to be part of the fun?
Then go to http://www.entireweb.com/free_submission/ and submit it today! It’s free and you’ll have Speedy Spider (the name of our web crawler) visiting you in the coming weeks.

And don’t forget to create a sitemap for your site (www.sitemaps.org/). That way, Speedy Spider will know instantly how your website is structured and find all of your great content. You can either list the sitemap in your robots.txt file, or you may submit it directly to us at http://www.entireweb.com/free_submission/ – we’ll automatically detect that it’s a sitemap.

We keep our fingers crossed for the big crawl and wish Speedy Spider the best of luck!

Earlier this week, we went to visit the Internet Expo in Gothenborg, Sweden. It felt good to “clear our minds” from all the work we currently are putting into the new search engine.

As always, we met up with many interesting companies, and among those, our Internet-provider TDC. Always fun to meet those guys! There were also other companies that had some interesting technology that we definitely will continue to discuss with.

Well, now it’s back to work for us and we’ll keep you updated on how things progress!

We have been busy working on the new search engine, and during the holidays, a couple of questions have come up (both in comments on the blog, but also from other places) asking us what will make Entireweb better than other search engines.

To a first approximation, search engines today work in very similar ways. Features are similar, search results are similar and so on. When saying this, we don’t say that these things are not important, but there are also many other issues for search engines to also consider.

First of all, let’s focus on the actual search experience.

In any good product today, it’s often the small things that make the difference. Maybe you like the design of the product better or you think it’s more user-friendly or it’s just a matter of price.

Accordingly, in the new version of Entireweb, we have figured out many ways of positively differentiating the user experience. We’ve worked hard to keep it simple, but at the same time made use of the latest web-technology. A current online trend is the growth of social networks, and many of these will be in one or more ways incorporated into the new search engine.

Second, what comes into the search engine is crucial.

The new Entireweb will have at its disposal a very complex indexing technology which is used by our web crawler, Speedy Spider. This new technology will decide in a very early phase of the process if a specific webpage that we visit is
likely to be important to you or not. This means that we will keep unwanted webpages out of the search engine, not by filtering them out from the search index afterwards, but instead trying not to let them in through the front door.

Of course, we have developed many other functions to be able to provide you with the best search engine in the world, and we will update you with more on these later on in the blog.