I recently a write up on my new search site from a Canadian hosting company. The article is included below:
Categories.ca: This search engine has a dmoz flavour to it and does pull some of it's content from there, but it is trying to build its own database of content and is looking for editors to help. Overall this SE looks good and has some additional nifty features to it. Submit by going to a category first and click on submit link. Remember to put http:// in front of your url.
Source: http://www.advancedhosting.ca/...ch_engine_canada.htm
The reason I am posting this message here, other than being proud of receiving this postive write-up, is that the last line of this article "Remember to put http:// in front of your url." alerted me to this:
I have received a couple of messages regarding the http:// part of address the user is adding.... the author of the above article sent me "I did have a problem trying to add www.advancedhosting.ca to the business>Internet category, URL can not contain the value 'www.advancedhosting.ca/' is the message I got. Please advise."
I would like to suggest that LSQL (or if someone could tell me how to make this mod) checks to see if the http:// is present or not, and add it if missing. My form does come up with the http:// already in the text box... but I think when some people cut and paste thier URL, they are doing so without the http://. I complelty understand this. Why IE even lets you do it in its address bar, so the un-educated thinks its ok.
Thanks
Categories.ca: This search engine has a dmoz flavour to it and does pull some of it's content from there, but it is trying to build its own database of content and is looking for editors to help. Overall this SE looks good and has some additional nifty features to it. Submit by going to a category first and click on submit link. Remember to put http:// in front of your url.
Source: http://www.advancedhosting.ca/...ch_engine_canada.htm
The reason I am posting this message here, other than being proud of receiving this postive write-up, is that the last line of this article "Remember to put http:// in front of your url." alerted me to this:
I have received a couple of messages regarding the http:// part of address the user is adding.... the author of the above article sent me "I did have a problem trying to add www.advancedhosting.ca to the business>Internet category, URL can not contain the value 'www.advancedhosting.ca/' is the message I got. Please advise."
I would like to suggest that LSQL (or if someone could tell me how to make this mod) checks to see if the http:// is present or not, and add it if missing. My form does come up with the http:// already in the text box... but I think when some people cut and paste thier URL, they are doing so without the http://. I complelty understand this. Why IE even lets you do it in its address bar, so the un-educated thinks its ok.
Thanks
