Experimental Search Engine

bren2002

Hi Folks

I've just put an experimental search engine live. It only indexes mobile optimised websites, and to be honest the list it has indexed is still very small.

But I'd appreciate if you added it to your mobile device and made any site suggestions too.

http://www.msearch-beta.com

mneylon

Some more information about it on the site would be helpful
An "about" page would be useful

cormee

bren2002 wrote: »

Hi Folks

I've just put an experimental search engine live. It only indexes mobile optimised websites, and to be honest the list it has indexed is still very small.

But I'd appreciate if you added it to your mobile device and made any site suggestions too.

http://www.msearch-beta.com

Great idea.

Does it actually spider for mobile sites or does it only list user-submitted sites?

How come http://m.msearch-beta.com and http://mobile.msearch-beta.com don't point to the site? Although it's not strictly necessary it has become the convention for mobile sites so some users might expect it. I did.

The interface isn't really designed for mobile devices, you need to have an eventlistner that detects a change of orientation on the device (ie. from landscape to portrait) and updates/refreshes the layout

[HTML]<script type="application/x-javascript">

addEventListener("load", function()
{
setTimeout(updateLayout, 0);
}, false);

var currentWidth = 0;

function updateLayout()
{
if (window.innerWidth != currentWidth)
{
currentWidth = window.innerWidth;

var orient = currentWidth == 320 ? "profile" : "landscape";
document.body.setAttribute("orient", orient);
setTimeout(function()
{
window.scrollTo(0, 1);
}, 100);
}
}

setInterval(updateLayout, 400);

</script>[/HTML]


You need to disable zooming

[HTML]<meta name="viewport" content="width=320; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/>[/HTML]

You need to change the homepage from a table-based layout to divs.