I've been experimenting with fatbomb and It's going pretty well so far.

Can anyone give me pointers to updated engine files?

(so far I get results only from pheeds)

thanks

Kaan

Sorry, but the scraper files aren't maintained any loger as they are too hard to keep up with.

However, I may update them once more, but I need more paying members to justify the expense. So tell all your friends and neighbors to join.

You can have a freelance perl programmer update or create some scraper files for you, just give them the files.

If you do this, set Fatbomb's cache for a pretty long time, a year or more, or else you'll lose your results each time a new search is made.

Until then, I really recommend learning and using Spiderbomb to build your own databases.

Learn to use "starting points" well in SpiderBomb and you can get the same sites without scraping the SERPs.

Since Fatty uses the sites' full meta tag descriptions, you'll have different results and decriptions than if you merely scraped the SERPs.

After Spiderbomb makes some databases, just download the files and put them in the Linez Tuel to cut line containing domain names you want to exclude.

I also HIGHLY recommend creating other databases by hand, researching the highest quality sites and adding them. This will create a "hub site" for you, which Google loves.

You can also learn Blogbomb and get it working with Fatbomb, which means you can aded all sorts of RSS pheeds and resources.

I'd start with SpiderBomb. If you're on a shared host, run it at night, US time.

Then use the Linez Tuel to help clean up the results.

Tip: If you can find a spinner that won't spin the URLs, spinning the Spiderbomb descriptions and titles is a great way to get unique content. Plus since they are used as SERPs, they don't have to make sense like articles do.

I would be great if we could have fresh engine files. - especially google

I've been working on Fatbomb since yesterday! I actually managed to make it support utf8 charset by modifying the source files) but I need some databases with utf8 chars in titles to test if it is working properly.

So far I've managed to add support for utf8 in the search box and results page and store the keywords correctly in keywords.txt - I capture correctly languages like greek and arabic in the keywords.txt!

If anyone is interested I can post the modifications I made (nothing much, some line commenting here and there and adding utf8 charset to headers) - I can't be sure that everything works perfectly without testing with utf8 databases though...

I'll have to follow your instructions and learn how to make my own databases - so much to learn, I only joined yesterday and believe me the learning curve here is steep!

Kaan

Hi Kaan,

One thing about scraping Google from your site is they can ban your IP. Unlike your home PC where you can easily change proxies, your site's IP is more permanent. Plus, the last thing you want to do is have Google ban your site's IP.

Also, Fatty is one of the more complex things here...But once you get used to it, it becomes a lot easier.

I have some "developer" licenses available, so you can sell sites made with Fatty. (But you can't sell Fatty itself). I've sold some sites for $650-$1000 without traffic, but it's been a while since I tried and not sure this could be repeated now...But something to think about.

And good job with the utf8!