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 — HOWTO — RECRAWL — SUBMIT — UPDATE
 
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.

 

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 OR UPDATING FEATURE LISTINGS

 
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…

1. TheXFactory.com/donatedirect
2. Click the amount you’d like to donate or fill in what you can afford. Every lit­tle bit counts.
3. Select “MY NEW LINK SUBMISSION” from the “Use this dona­tion for” pull-down menu.
4. Sub­mit link on the next page by click­ing “Submit/update URL”
5. 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…

1. TheXFactory.com/donatedirect
2. Click the amount you’d like to donate or fill in what you can afford. Every lit­tle bit counts.
3. Select “MY LINK UPDATE” from the “Use this dona­tion for” pull-down menu.
4. Sub­mit link on the next page by click­ing “Submit/update URL”
5. 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.

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If you have questions/comments, vis­it our CONTACT page to ask us ques­tions etc.
 

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That’s it. Have a great day. 🙂
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