Six Months with Six Milestones

As you’ve already noticed, this blog space hasn’t had a single post in the last six months until now. During this period, six achievements have been made for this search engine. It’s not only completed a domain change from SearchTheWeb2.com to SearchTheTail.com but
also achieved five other milestones.

1. Completion of Domain Change. The initial domain name, SearchTheWeb2.com, changed to Tynto.com and then to SearchTheTail.com to reflect to the purpose of the search engine: Search the Long Tail or Google Tail, Google Search with a Tail.


2. Search In 11 Languages. You can use SearchTheTail to search under 11 different languages: English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italia, Portugal, 中文简体, 日本語, Dutch, Tiếng Việt, العربية .


3. Users From Over 100 Countries. SearchTheTail’s users are all over the world. Visitors from the top 20 countries recently visited in the last 30 days are shown in the below image.

The above table shows that the EU has taken over the North America in terms of visitors to dominate the SearchTheTail traffics. The financial reward has also reflected this observation.

4. 2 Million Page Views a Month. As of today, the site has reached two million page views a month. This achievement is partially due to a contribution from several small search engines such as baidu.com, soho.com, my.att.net, mywebsearch.com, suche.freenet.de, suche.t-online.de, icq.com, etc.


5. Top 5-digit World Ranking Site. Based on Alexa ranking system, searchthetail.com was placed under 100,000 for the last three-month traffic average. Under Comcast's estimation, searchthetail.com has been ranked at 38,000 for the US traffics in Feb 28, 2008.


6. Top Ranking for Several Search Terms. The site is also currently ranking at #1 or 2 for several search terms: long tail search engine, Search the Tail, Google Tail, Search Tail, SearchTheTail, etc.

“Six months with six milestones” is a good achievement but the search development is still a long way to go. Our ultimate milestone is to have 1% of global search market share.