A NO LOGIN, NO TRACKING, RANDOMIZED SEARCH, MANUALLY MAINTAINED, ALGORITHM FREE, member donation, and visitor donation supported search engine for Creative, Do It Yourself(D.I.Y.), Do It Together(D.I.T.), 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 Link 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 –> ↓ HOW TO: SUGGEST CORRECTIONS ↓. *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.
IDEAS: NO LOGIN?
We assume that people who are building or creating anything want people to find information about what they do on the Internet. We retreive information from the website address(url) that these folks use when submitting or updating anything to our website’s Original Content Search Engine. Since the source information is already public there is no need for a login or creating an account with us. All we ask for is a small donation in exchange for helping you spread the word via your listing on our little website.
IDEAS: 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.
IDEAS: 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.
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.
HOW TO: MORE SEARCH NAVIGATION
[FEATURES] = Browse feature Pages
[SUBSITES] = Browse featured SubSite Pages
[SUBWEBSITES] = Browse featured SubWebsite Pages
[DRIVES] = Raffle, Gift, Produgi, & Member Donation Drives
HOW TO: BASIC DETAILED SEARCHING
FEATURES EXAMPLE: (your keywords…) bands/musicians Webcrawled Links
HOW TO: SUGGEST CORRECTIONS
> Example
At the top right of each Webcrawled Feature Listing page appears a link called “↓SUGGEST CORRECTIONS↓”. 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.
Our Original Content Search Engine is a creative and useful way to help raise donations to keep our site alive and kickin’. This also helps you by adding yet another way for you to be found within our site and by other search engines on the Internet. Most of our initial listings 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.
No login to TheXFactory.com is required, so we use the url that you submit as a means to confirm that we should crawl(submit) or re-crawl(update) the information located at the sourced website. As a result there is no need for an account to be created and anyone on the Internet can submit/update a url as many times as desired. Nevertheless, we’ll appreciate the donation(s) and support. Paypal does require a login account if you decide that you would like to automatically update your submission monthly or yearly. When donating, there are 3 suggested prices. However, you may donate anything from $2 to $508.88 by clicking the “Other” option. Submit/update instructions are below. Please follow the instructions below;
FEATURE LINK LISTING: SUBMIT/UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS
NOTE: Please remember that we manually scrape information, content, etc which already exists at the public source page.
- TheXFactory.com/submit-featurelisting
- Click the amount you’d like to donate or fill in what you can afford by clicking the “Other” option. Every little bit counts. 🙂
- Select “Starter”, “Basic”, or “Full” options from the “Use this donation for” pull-down menu.
- Select to pay via “Donate with Debit or Credit Card”(no account required) or “Donate with Paypal”(account required) options.
- Paste your website’s url in the box labeled “Website url to Retreive info from?”. This url should be short as we will only be scraping basic about information from this location. There is a 250 character limit for this messsage field.
- We’ll stop by your website and manually add or update your feature link listing to our little search engine within a few days if no sooner.