It’s been awhile since our last post - sorry for the silence. Since our initial launch on May 8th 2007, user feedback has been nothing short of overwhelming. It has been an incredible challenge balancing the further development of the site with responding to our users’ requests– so first off, an apology to those that we could not respond to! We hope you understand.
So, due to the huge number of requests to add certain search services to Sputtr.com and our inability to physically add all of these as buttons on the homepage, we had no choice but to take Sputtr.com to the next level:
Customizable Search!
The new Sputtr.com homepage is a fully customizable multi-search service for you, the users, to edit, personalize and play with. What do we mean by customizable? Well, for example, if you don’t like Ask.com and instead would like to search the Internet using Dogpile.com, then you can now simply replace the Ask button on Sputtr.com with an equally visually pleasing Dogpile button.
So get started and build your own Sputtr search engine today! Go give it a try here.
When on the homepage, simply click the ‘Customize This Page’ button in the top-right hand corner to start customizing your search layout. The information will be saved to a small cookie, which will be saved on your computer for future use. Please note that if at any time you wish to access your custom search layout on Sputtr.com from a different computer (or after having cleared all cookies), you will need to register with us here before you create your custom layout. Registration shouldn’t take more than a minute, and the only information we require is a username, password and email address (to recover passwords in the future). This step is necessary if you want to be able to access your custom search engine from any computer, anywhere in the world – whether at home, at work or on a holiday.
Finally, please note that the total number of search engine choices that you can add to the page will increase rapidly over time, giving you the power to build an incredibly powerful multi-search tool. Please be patient with us as we add more search options to the list over the coming weeks – we’re currently aiming to add around 10 new search engines every week! Also, our international versions are currently still using the old layout and are not customizable as of yet. This will change soon, though!
So far so good - make sure to let us know what you think of this new version (or report any bugs) by leaving comments to this post, or by emailing us directly at contact@sputtr.com.
Cheers,
The Sputtr Team
