Please Help Me Promote RustySearch

We almost have a total of 5,000 rated searches at RustySearch, when we hit the 5k mark, I will publish revised stats, including new types of reports. But I really want to get a wider and more representative sampling. I know larger news sites are reading this, please help out this small search engine industry, by driving people to RustySearch: The Search Engine Relevancy Challenge.

The four major search engines have went beyond the call of duty to help us gather this data. I promise to provide detailed raw data to the public, but I will be excluding IP addresses to protect user privacy. However, I will be converting the IP address into a unique number, so you can use that unique number to see the number of unique searchers.

If you have more ideas on how to get the word out and do not want to leave a comment here, please contact me directly at barry AT rustybrick DOT com.

Sample of Text Ads:

Try The Search Engine Relevancy Challenge, by making RustySearch your default search engine for two weeks.

Which Search Engine is the Most Relevant? You Decide at The Search Engine Relevancy Challenge.

Sample of Banner Ads:

Like The Story? Vote For It On Yahoo Buzz! Or On Sphinn!

posted rustybrick in Search Theory at May 12, 2005 9:11 AM Comments (7)

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Barry write something up or create a few banners or text ads that people/readers could use it temporarely on their sites if they wish to help out. I personally have not problems with that and will announce in prive forums I am member of. I know we're not large news siets, but still word gets around ;)

Posted by Max at May 12, 2005 09:24

I appreciate that Max. I'll work up some text ads, and possibly some banner ads (but they seem to be more commercial).

I am also hoping that some news people can write an article on it, or it to get slashdotted. :)

Posted by Barry Schwartz at May 12, 2005 09:40

I didn't mean it to sound commercial, just didn't find the right word for it :) I see your point with the articles. You probably can submit a pressrelease to PRWeb and people also can post it in their blogs for you. Small paragraph would be easy to put on any site to support your project that's why I called it ad - small to be able to be placed in visible places :)

Posted by Max at May 12, 2005 09:57

Yup, Press Releases went out, see http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=search+engine+relevancy+challenge&ie=UTF-8

Posted by Barry Schwartz at May 12, 2005 10:19

Put up the press release on my blog and on my 360 :) Hope it helps

Posted by Razvan Antonescu at May 12, 2005 14:29

Lots of good responses so far, thanks for all your help.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at May 12, 2005 15:00

Thanks Dan,

"What would be really interesting would be to see the score of the competing search engines for different search term lengths."

I will be providing all the raw data for you guys, so you can do whatever you want with it. Thanks for your support.

And once I hear from Pepsi or Coke, I will remove those trademarks. :)

Posted by Barry Schwartz at May 12, 2005 15:29