Scrudu Online

I got an email earlier this week, which was followed by a comment on one of my earlier posts, to let me know that Scrudu is now online (sort of)
It’s still very much a work in progress from what I can see…
At the moment the interface is minimal – you just have a search box. It’s a pity that the blog which Roger was running isn’t linked to, as that gave you some information as to what they were planning.
On the plus side it is nice and fast …
Problems that I’ve noticed:
Duplicate content – it seems to be indexing multiple copies of websites ie. if there are 5 domain aliases for a site it can’t recognise that and you end up with 5 separate sets of data
Filtering – there is no “adult” or “mature content” filter, so you can end up with some very interesting results try these two to get you started:
one two
Geo specific results – for a site that carries the title “search ireland” it seems to be returning a lot of non-Irish results
It will be interesting to see how it develops over time ….