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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
New SA search engine
- Thread starter ic
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Lets see how long they last
I checked it out. It looks OK and works OK, but nothing spectacular. Then I investigated them at
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.jonga.co.za
They seem to be based in London. How can they call themsleves South African?
Running on Windows 2000 with Microsoft-IIS/5.0 as web server? Get real.
If they get any sort of traffic volume their server will just collapse - they will be the victim of their own success.
I checked it out. It looks OK and works OK, but nothing spectacular. Then I investigated them at
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.jonga.co.za
They seem to be based in London. How can they call themsleves South African?
Running on Windows 2000 with Microsoft-IIS/5.0 as web server? Get real.
If they get any sort of traffic volume their server will just collapse - they will be the victim of their own success.
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naeem
Expert Member
Moederloos
Honorary Master
[sarcasm]
Oh good, much better than any feature that returns irrelevant information
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TheRoDent
Cool Ideas Rep
A "South African" search engine based in London - Haha. How screwed is our telecomms market !
SlimJim
Active Member
naeem said:
google.co.za is not local by a long shot
jonga.co.za
Hi everyone
I thought I'd post a reply to some of the previous postings in regards to the itweb news article posted on myadsl. Firstly if any of you would like to get some more insight and history into what jonga is all about please visit the following urls :
TECTONIC: Jonga search engine launches
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=749
Biggest SA search engine to launch this month
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=688
The biggest misconception is that jonga is a commercial entity. jonga is in fact a privately owned search engine for SA (I am the sole owner and developer) and as such the reason why jonga is hosted in the UK is that I'm not a millionaire, I have a dayjob like everyone else and as such subsidise jonga from my own hard earned salary and definitely cannot afford 2mbit/s of bandwidth (the peak bandwidth used by the search engine when spidering) especially in South Africa's telecommunications environment.
I'd like all of you to view the search help for jonga (specifically the example searches section) when you have a few free minutes available at:
http://www.jonga.co.za/help.asp
The example searches will give you an insight into why jonga is different to google and other SA search engines (old and new). Please pay attention to the right hand side "other results" section - these ARE NOT paid results like other search engines.
To Rooijan: The entire jonga engine is spread across multiple O/S's and technologies including MS Windows, Fedora Core etc and only the frontend is served up via Windows of which there are 5 frontend servers. (All results are provided by servlets/web services behind the scenes).
If you choose to use jonga for local based searches or any other search engine for that matter it will always boil down to personal choice. The idea behind jonga was to provide an alternative that hopefully does a better SA search than other local sites.
Regards,
Alistair
Hi everyone
I thought I'd post a reply to some of the previous postings in regards to the itweb news article posted on myadsl. Firstly if any of you would like to get some more insight and history into what jonga is all about please visit the following urls :
TECTONIC: Jonga search engine launches
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=749
Biggest SA search engine to launch this month
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=688
The biggest misconception is that jonga is a commercial entity. jonga is in fact a privately owned search engine for SA (I am the sole owner and developer) and as such the reason why jonga is hosted in the UK is that I'm not a millionaire, I have a dayjob like everyone else and as such subsidise jonga from my own hard earned salary and definitely cannot afford 2mbit/s of bandwidth (the peak bandwidth used by the search engine when spidering) especially in South Africa's telecommunications environment.
I'd like all of you to view the search help for jonga (specifically the example searches section) when you have a few free minutes available at:
http://www.jonga.co.za/help.asp
The example searches will give you an insight into why jonga is different to google and other SA search engines (old and new). Please pay attention to the right hand side "other results" section - these ARE NOT paid results like other search engines.
To Rooijan: The entire jonga engine is spread across multiple O/S's and technologies including MS Windows, Fedora Core etc and only the frontend is served up via Windows of which there are 5 frontend servers. (All results are provided by servlets/web services behind the scenes).
If you choose to use jonga for local based searches or any other search engine for that matter it will always boil down to personal choice. The idea behind jonga was to provide an alternative that hopefully does a better SA search than other local sites.
Regards,
Alistair
IMO Google is by far the best search engine.
How many search engines allow you to do this?
"the * jumps" (will return wildcard words for * ie the dog jumps, the cat jumps)
OR
"He|She Sits|Jumps On|Off" (will return all combinations of the string, ie "he sits on", "she sits on", "she jumps off", "he jumps off" etc)
OR
"free webhosting" -trial -buy (will return sites that offer free webhosting but do not contain the words trial or buy)
How many search engines allow you to do this?
"the * jumps" (will return wildcard words for * ie the dog jumps, the cat jumps)
OR
"He|She Sits|Jumps On|Off" (will return all combinations of the string, ie "he sits on", "she sits on", "she jumps off", "he jumps off" etc)
OR
"free webhosting" -trial -buy (will return sites that offer free webhosting but do not contain the words trial or buy)
jonga.co.za
Hi again all
donaldza: The IIS/ASP only serves the text of the results - the actual search function is done on a linux cluster and there's more than one IIS server as previously stated. Each IIS Server has between 4-8GB ram and each Linux server has 8GB ram (all Dual or Quad Xeon). As the IIS server's only do formatting they can handle thousands of simultaneous queries. The interface between IIS and Linux is a combination of XML and ISAPI.
alchamy: jonga supports + and - prefixes to differentiate between words/phrase importance etc. I'll see what I can come up with in regards to the regex type "he|her|they" type queries in the future. Thanks for the input.
afrikane: Thanks for taking the time to check out jonga and hope you find it valuable
Regards,
Alistair
Hi again all
donaldza: The IIS/ASP only serves the text of the results - the actual search function is done on a linux cluster and there's more than one IIS server as previously stated. Each IIS Server has between 4-8GB ram and each Linux server has 8GB ram (all Dual or Quad Xeon). As the IIS server's only do formatting they can handle thousands of simultaneous queries. The interface between IIS and Linux is a combination of XML and ISAPI.
alchamy: jonga supports + and - prefixes to differentiate between words/phrase importance etc. I'll see what I can come up with in regards to the regex type "he|her|they" type queries in the future. Thanks for the input.
afrikane: Thanks for taking the time to check out jonga and hope you find it valuable
Regards,
Alistair
I'm all for new businesses but we just need something innovative another search engine just doesn't seem like what we need. Google using its pages from south africa option works like a charm. Best of luck with Jonga tho. Google at this point offers me everything I need. I used to use ananzi before they brought out their South African search option.
jonga said:
Okay so I have been playing around with the engine a little and its really quite nifty and pretty damn fast, I think your onto something here, just don't pull an ananzi and have more advertisments than pages.
I went as far a recommending it to a few friends (not only for the PSP
)I can see Jonga (need to get used to the name) quickly moving up the local search engine ranks, its about time we had a decent local engine. What I really like about Jonga is the history bar, not because of the search history but because of the click history.
Its not just another search engine, its a proper search engine, ananzi & funnel are just not good enough and even though I swear by Google I am getting some great search results with Jonga.
So when can we expect J-Mail and Jonga Talk?
Surely you mean JPraat?alchamy said:...
So when can we expect J-Mail and Jonga Talk?
After I found Jonga on my ADSL I went and investigate, NICE well done, “lekker” fast and not cluttered.
Can I just ask ONE thing PLEASE, Can you index pages correctly I hate to go and search on Ananzi or Aardvark for something like “cars” and find anything ells on the search engine then cars, I think Jonga must be hard ass, if a site is listed and the key words is not corresponding with the site Jonga must refuse to index the site on the search.
If Jonga can get this done correctly it will become the biggest search engine in South Africa and I do any thing in my power to get friends and family to make use of it.
Can I just ask ONE thing PLEASE, Can you index pages correctly I hate to go and search on Ananzi or Aardvark for something like “cars” and find anything ells on the search engine then cars, I think Jonga must be hard ass, if a site is listed and the key words is not corresponding with the site Jonga must refuse to index the site on the search.
If Jonga can get this done correctly it will become the biggest search engine in South Africa and I do any thing in my power to get friends and family to make use of it.