Documents, crm-systems and e-mail servers may be a valuable source for meta-data, such as author, source, project etc. This meta-information can be saved with each document and used for filtering.
We have had support for meta-information in the core search kernel for some time, and you have probably used it to filter on dates and file […]
We are happy to announce that Searchdaimon will be a partner for the SearchSummit Norway conference. If you want to learn more about our technology and meet us face to face, drop by our exhibition booth. SearchSummit Norway will also include speakers like Susan Feldman (IDC), Chris Mahoney (Second Life) and John Markus Lervik (FAST). […]
Searchdaimon partnered with Jayde Online to deliver the search technology for their web search engine ExactSeek.com. Using our search platform, ExactSeek’s index has grown from 100 million web pages to over 500 million and will increase to 1 billion in the coming months.
News articles (in Norwegian)
http://www.digi.no/505126/norsk-soketeknologi-til-amerikansk-sokegigant
http://www.universitetsavisa.no/ua_lesmer.php?kategori=nyheter&dokid=4798908ae99126.78404924
Full press release:
ExactSeek Partners with Searchdaimon AS on New Search […]
We are nearing our first test run of our product, one of the remaining tasks has been to create a administration interface for our users.
This is now close to being complete. Here’s a sneak preview:
Overview:
This the main view, where it’s possible to manage all the collection that have been added.
Managing a collection
The view you […]
We have hired two new developers. Both are students at NTNU, and will be working part time.
Dagur Johannsson
Dagur is currently on his third year studying Bachelor in informatics at NTNU.
His main focus in computer science is information management and programming, an activity he has done for 5 years. He has developed several applications toward the […]
Daimon is an alternative spelling for daemon, and a captain rank in Star Trek, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimon
We moved into offices in Gløshaugen Innovation Center, in Trondheim to day.
The management has had offices in Oslo Innovation Centre for some time now, but the developers, Runar Buvik, Magnus Galåen and Martin Breda, which lives in Trondheim hasn’t had any place to stay, until now.
For any start up company, getting the first real offices […]
The crawl has unfortunately been down for a while now.
We managed to run out of space to store new pages. We believed we hade ordered new servers in good time before we needed them, but the ones we wanted were temporally out off stock from our supplier.
When we finally did get them, we hade some […]
We have reached 200 million crawled pages. Se live status here: http://dcsetup.boitho.com/cgi-bin/dc/topCrawlers.cgi
We are crawling ca 120 million pages a month now, so 300 million isn’t far away.
Now you can get status for your pages. Just submit your url here: http://bbh-001.boitho.com/cgi-bin/UrlToDocID/index.cgi , like this: http://bbh-001.boitho.com/cgi-bin/UrlToDocID/index.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boitho.com
http://www.boitho.com/beta/
Installed two more storage servers today. Bringing total storage space up to almost 3 TB. The servers are Super Micro 5014C-MT. P4 with Hyper-threading, 512 MB ram and 900 GB disk space.
Photo: Supermicro Inc
See here for an overview over our storage system:
http://bbh-001.boitho.com/phpSysInfo/
Got the papers from Brreg (The Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises) today. Boitho AS have been incorporated.
We have had offices in Oslo Innovation Centre for some time now, and today we where official taken in into there incubator.
http://www.forskningsparken.no/companybase/showcompanypublic.aspx?companyID=8501
The server used to distribute urls for download are having disk problems. We are useing two SCSI disks in raid1 (mirroring), one of this disk have fallen out. It don’t appear to be physical broken, only fallen out of the raid. We will have to rebuild the raid and see if it will start to […]
Wondering what happens to the data you crawl? Is the project even a live? Why aren’t we release a new index?
At least now you can brows the data online:
http://www.boitho.com/discover/
Google is announcing the idea of a rel=”nofollow” tag on individual links. Forums, blogs, guest books, and others who allow the public to add text and links by themselves, can tell search engines that the links are not necessarily approved by the page and should be treated as untrusted. These links shouldn’t be factored into […]
Thanks to Anders Christensen and The Department of Computer and Information Science at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) for lending us three old computers as well as, hosting space and Internet access. When the servers get operational you can see them crawl as “idi-ntnu” at the user statistics page http://dcsetup.boitho.com/cgi-bin/dc/topCrawlers.cgi.
One of our storage servers have been behaving strange lately. It could behave normal for 2-3 days, and then crash without any warnings. We couldn’t find any thing wrong, and look at it for days. We first believed that it what a bug with the indexing software because it always was the program running when […]