A no Login, no tracking, manually maintained, algorithm free, member, and donation supported search engine for Creative, Do It Yourself, Do It Together, and Small Business types
IDEAS — THE SIMPLE AND THE NOT SO SIMPLE
In an effort to give links like yours a place to exist other than privacy invasive websites such as social media and major search engines, Our webcrawler is a manual search engine. That’s right an actual person not a bot adds entries to this website’s search engine.
We try to keep Feature Listings simple by pulling a single profile style image, about information, and a website link from the source website. This is because we’d like people to click through your website to engage with the content at your website. The commercial search engines scrape everything and people almost never visit your actual website. Just sayin’…
Additionally, anyone can request a simple re-crawling of the source page by following the instructions here –> ↓ LEAVE A REPLY TO RE-CRAWL THIS LINK ↓. *NOTE: Content should already exist at the source website.
If you want more content added to your Feature Listing page, follow the instructions here –> ↓ SUBMITTING OR UPDATING FEATURE LISTINGS ↓ *NOTE: Any additional content should also already exist at your source website.
SEARCHED BY OTHER SEARCH ENGINES
Also other search engines may crawl the content on our website. So people don’t have to directly search our website in order to find the content on our website.
NO ALGORITHMS
There are no algorithms. We enter items as we find them then add them to a few categories(ex: band/musician, visual arts, small business, etc). The rest is up to your search keywords.
NO TRACKING
We also don’t track your searches. All we care about is adding content to help spread the word.
HOWTO: SIMPLE SEARCH NAVIGATION
= Close
= filter
= Autosearch
Clicking on the icon on our search engine, will automatically show you all of the most recent entries to our website. Including features, subsites, etc. Give it a try below.
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Continue scrolling through up to 100 results in the search engine box. Click one of the title links to open your chosen page; or, Press ENTER or click Display results on page to show the list on the website page instead of search box. There will be 10 search results at a time with more pagination options at the bottom.
MORE SEARCH NAVIGATION HOW TO
SUBMIT = Submit a site link to be crawled.
[FEATURES] = Browse features
[SUBSITES] = Browse featured SubSite Pages
[DRIVES] = Raffle, Gift, Produgi, & Member Donation Drives
BASIC DETAILED SEARCHING
FEATURES EXAMPLE: (your keywords…) bands/musicians Webcrawled Links
LEAVE A REPLY TO RE-CRAWL THIS LINK
> Example
At the top right of each Webcrawled Feature Listing page appears a link called “LEAVE A REPLY TO RE-CRAWL THIS LINK”. Clicking it will take you to the bottom of the features page to reveal a reply update form. It allows anyone on the Internet to “suggest” that the information be re-crawled or updated. it’s kinda like a poke to let us know that we should only update information located at the source link. After we receive this request, we will revisit the source page location at a later time. This link appears within the Feature Listing under “Content retrieved from: …”.
Open up a new window HERE to find or search for your Feature Listing and give it a try.
* All fields in the reply form are required;
- COMMENT FIELD — Comments may be added. However, please note that the comment information itself will probably not be used in updating the feature page. It will be used as a general guide with light instructions.
- NAME FIELD — The name associated with the email address in the “EMAIL FIELD” below.
- EMAIL FIELD — The senders email address is require and will automatically be added to our mailing list and will NOT be shared.
- WEBSITE FIELD — Should be the name from which you believe that content has been sourced from. This is more of a security check to prevent spam and false update requests. In orther words, simply paste the url that we used to retrieve the information(ex: Content retrieved from: “…”) above in to this field.
SUBMITTING FEATURE LISTINGS
NOTE: Please remember that we will only scrape information, content, etc which already exists at the source page.
Most of our entries are from our Creative and Creative Business minded friends on social media. The methods below can also be used as a kind of work around for people who just wander in to our website without being connected to us on social media. So…
MY NEW LINK SUBMISSION:
If you would like to submit a new feature listing, donate directly at…
- TheXFactory.com/donatedirect
- Click the amount you’d like to donate or fill in what you can afford. Every little bit counts.
- Select “MY NEW LINK SUBMISSION” from the “Use this donation for” pull-down menu.
- Submit link on the next page by clicking “Submit/update URL”
- Paste your website’s url in the box. Add a few instructions if you’d like to the message. There is a 250 character limit for this messsage field. We’ll stop by your website and add your feature listing at TheXFactory.com.
UPDATING FEATURE LISTINGS
NOTE: Please remember that we will only scrape information, content, etc which already exists at the source page.
Most of our entries are from our Creative and Creative Business minded friends on social media. The methods below can also be used as a kind of work around for people who just wander in to our website without being connected to us on social media. So…
MY LINK UPDATE:
If you’d like to update(re-crawl) your site, donate directly at…
- TheXFactory.com/donatedirect
- Click the amount you’d like to donate or fill in what you can afford. Every little bit counts.
- Select “MY LINK UPDATE” from the “Use this donation for” pull-down menu.
- Submit link on the next page by clicking “Submit/update URL”
- Paste your website’s url in the box. Add a few instructions if you’d like to the message. There is a 250 character limit for this messsage field. We’ll stop by your website again and update your feature listing at TheXFactory.com.
If you have questions/comments, visit our CONTACT page to ask us questions etc.
That’s it. Have a great day. 🙂
Peace. [TangenT D. Noir] [TangenT] [T.T] TheXFactory.com :: Creative Network
SUBSITE FEATURE LISTING — SINGLE PAGE
> Example
> Get Us Started
NOTE: Please remember that we will only scrape information, content, etc which already exists on the Internet.
“Subsites” are for people who would like us to crawl the Internet for their “PUBLIC” “NON PERSONAL” content to add to their single page SubSite Feature Listing. A monthly donation is greatly appreciated. This SubSite Feature Listing will also have a custom url like below:
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SUBSITE SINGLE PAGE URL FORWARDS TO:
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> TheXfactory.com /YourName
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INSTEAD OF A LONG URL LIKE:
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> TheXFactory.com /DATE/DETAILS/YOURPAGETITLE
After signing up, you may contact us via email to request that we add specific content to your SubSite Feature Listing page. *We will provide you with a temporary password to view the page while we are constructing it.
CONNECTED (COMING SOON…)
Since most of our entries are our connections on social media, “Connected” is simply a little mark on any Feature Listing indicating our friendship on social media. It’s our way of saying “We kinda virtually know about these guys for real”.
*Since we want as little of your personal information as possible on our servers, we use our social media accounts to validate the owners. We may ask you to make temporary changes to your source website so that we know that you are the owner of that website.
“Customizing” is for people who would like us to make custom changes to their Feature Listing using the information already contained at their source website(s).
*Since we want as little of your personal information as possible on our servers, we use our social media accounts to validate the owners. We may ask you to make temporary changes to your source website so that we know that you are the owner of that website.
There is also a chance that we my try to talk out making custom changes due to the fact that we really do want to people to go to your website for your content.
After that, you may contact us via email for specific changes and/or updates to your Feature Listing page.
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Listing Owners: Visit TheXFactory.com/donate. Click “DONATE” button and submit your link within message while making your donation. After adding your donation amount you should see a clickable textbox field with the label “Submit, update a link, and/or leave message.”. Click it. Add the source url which you’d like us to visit for “webcrawling” first. Then add a few instructions if you’d like to the message. There is a 250 character limit for this messsage field. If you check the “Make this a monthly donation” we will know to check the source. After that, you may contact us via email for specific changes and/or updates to your feature page.
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