Early summer: 2005 Research and early stages of the programming and planning.
Mid Fall: The first crawl has been completed. Minor test only. 10 sites with linking.
January 2006 public beta testing.
February 2006 accepting URL submissions via donations and eBay.
Mid February 2006 beta search moves out of testing subdirectory and to main page REPLACING GOOGLE search!
Late February 2006 many request from visitors have asked for a drill down directory of the search database. We have decided to move in this direction after considering the database challenges that would be required. In order to complete this database addition we will not be accepting URL submissions during this time frame. Expected time frame will be about 1.5 weeks.
March 6th 2006 the first additions to the new layout are in place. Our search engine spider / crawler will be back out to your sites to be included in the directory tree as requested by thousands of visitors in an independent survey.
March 8th 2006, a new submission form will be provided to users submitting their site for indexing. Completion time should be 1 day for this form.
March 12th 2006 our alexa ranking has climbed another 1/2 million putting us at 574,755 this is great news with special thanks to our visitors and advertisers.
