How many Irish web directories are there?

jmcc

How many Irish web directories and search engines are there, including those made for adsense Dmoz clone directories? It is just one of those phase of the moon questions that I've been trying to figure out while building a new search engine index.

Regards...jmcc

Rollo Tamasi

search.ie is the only Irish one i'm aware of although i do remember using a search engine as gaeilge before ach nil a fhios agam cad ab ainm do...

jmcc

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

search.ie is the only Irish one i'm aware of although i do remember using a search engine as gaeilge before ach nil a fhios agam cad ab ainm do...

I keep running across Made For Adsense Irish webdirectories. Most of them seem to be based on a php script that drags content from Dmoz in real time. Search.ie is a genuine directory based on real content. That makes it somewhat different from many of these directories.

Part of the reason for posting was seeing the Searchtheowl.com "Irish search engine" go dot.bomb recently.

Regards...jmcc

Gosh

www.irelandonthenet.ie is a site that has real content

mneylon

There have been quite a few over the years. Some of them have died out completely while others have somehow managed to stumble along.

Ones with original content:

browseireland.com
search.ie
niceone.com
irelandonthenet
gasta

I seeded browse.ie with dmoz data, but have been dumping old links and accepting new ones actively, so I guess it's a hybrid of some form

There are a silly number of Dmoz scrapers that you can't submit to and simply replicate the _exactly_ the DMOZ content and layout...

jmcc

blacknight wrote:

There have been quite a few over the years. Some of them have died out completely while others have somehow managed to stumble along.

Ones with original content:

gasta

I thought that gasta was just an Overture front site masquerading as a search engine?

Kerna had its Swift Ireland directory but that seems to have gone dot.bomb.
Online.ie's Irishsites.com is still there but I don't know what is going on with it.
Doras.ie (that paragon of Telecom Eireann thinking) is gone.
Local.ie - the domain dropped and was reregistered.
mind.ie - seems to be an unattributed Dmoz clone.
u2click.com - not sure what this is.
searchtheowl.com - reinvented itself as a web directory with results mixed with Adsense ads.
discoverireland.net - new. Not much content yet.
searchengine.ie - excellent example of what was possible with Access. Dropped and reregged.
isearch.ie - dropped and regregged. Was a search engine now is a directory site.

On average, these directory sites were lasting 18 months. Adsense has perhaps changed that average but once a site goes beyond the Dmoz float, it starts to depend on user submissions. That's when traffic becomes essential. Kind of a Catch 22 really. The alternative is for the directory owner to start crawling the web and that's where the line between directory and search engine starts to blur.

Regards...jmcc

Cork Skate

www.niceone.com is another ... dunno if its real or not?

jmcc

Cork Skate wrote:

www.niceone.com is another ... dunno if its real or not?

It was/is. It dates from the Doras era when wannabes thought that copying Yahoo's directory idea would bring them success. Not sure if it is still active though - like most of these directories, the people behind it seemed to think that they could rely on user submissions to build their website index.

Regards...jmcc

rogerg

They seem to come and go. We've had Browse Ireland running since 1995 /1996.

I've been trying to figure out while building a new search engine index.

Are you planning to use those sites as a basis for your search engine?

With all the delays it'll probably take us about 2 more weeks to get Scrudu Irish Search Engine up and running. I reckon it should give The Current Best Irish Search Engine a run for it's money :cool: ....but maybe not if you get this new search engine index going. .

jmcc

rogerg wrote:

They seem to come and go. We've had Browse Ireland running since 1995 /1996.

Browse Ireland is one of the core directories. The arrival of Adsense seems to have complicated things (some of these MFA directories seem to be lasting longer than the 18 month average.).

Are you planning to use those sites as a basis for your search engine?

Too much duplication. And then there is the deadwood issue. Some sites may be dead or have changed ownership.

With all the delays it'll probably take us about 2 more weeks to get Scrudu Irish Search Engine up and running. I reckon it should give The Current Best Irish Search Engine a run for it's money :cool: ....but maybe not if you get this new search engine index going. .

Yep the Irish web has grown dramatically in the last few years. A full index of Irish sites would probably end up at around 15 million pages (at a guess) but there would be significant duplication. And a lot of that would be historical rather than live.

Regards...jmcc

mneylon

I just posted this:
http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2006/07/29/irish-seo-where-to-submit-your-site/http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2006/07/29/irish-seo-where-to-submit-your-site/

Additions are welcome

seamus

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mneylon

Oh that was clever

Here: http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2006/07/29/irish-seo-where-to-submit-your-site/

mowd

I just started my own Irish web directory.

websearch.ie