Snap.com has an interesting look

**brian.mark** · #1 (**permalink**) 05-27-2006, 12:55 AM

Has anyone else tried out snap.com since their launch?

I really like the previews they show, the results seem decent, but I have one complaint... it's very slow, at least on RedHat Enterprise like I run on my machine. It also seems to favor homepages a bit much at this point, but hopefully that'll be addressed by better indexing down the road.

Brian.

Burf.com · #2 (**permalink**) 05-29-2006, 02:07 PM

Very nice, like the images coming up, wounder how it does it? I wounder if its real time.

**brian.mark** · #3 (**permalink**) 05-30-2006, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Burf.com

Very nice, like the images coming up, wounder how it does it? I wounder if its real time.

It's not real time, but yes, that's slick. It's also not that hard to do. You just have to be a bit clever about what you're doing. If you'd like to add them to Burf, let me know. I've written apps to do that in the past on a Linux server as well as from a Windows PC... and it wouldn't be all that tough to create them and send them over to your web server. All others would just be handled via a custom 404 for the directory, which would be a generic image. ;-)

Any thoughts on the SERPs? They don't look like anyone else's that I have noticed at the moment. Does anyone know if those are meta results?

Brian.

Burf.com · #4 (**permalink**) 05-31-2006, 05:02 AM

Snap.com has been getting alot of press, it was mentioned at a big show (I was reading)

The images on my results would be bril, I was going to do a dll to do it but its too crappy

I be very happy if you could help me mate!

Back to snap. Has anyone emailed them for info?