Digger is a whole web internet search engine. Digger is an advanced computing platform designed to gather, store, sort and search massive sets of data including the internet. Digger is ad free, users may support Digger by using one of our monetized sites like sf.baypup.com and jobs.baypup.com as well as make a PayPal donation on the search results page.
Baypup respects privacy. Our goal is to provide access to high quality information, search results, and web services as an alternative to “Big Search”. We provide these results without bias or malice. If you find something in our index that shouldn’t be there please contact us!
Baypup was designed by Jason Stubblefield for Flatland Industries as a demonstration of advanced distributed computing and has since grown into a functional and increasingly useful search engine.
Key Accomplishments: Flatland industries has made the following key technological accomplishments critical to the operation of a large scale hypertext search engine:
- Deployed a horizontally scalable, bug free, computing computing cluster with accompanying distributed file system.
- Demonstrated a 25 million page internet search index that delivers fast and relevant search results.
- Demonstrated a working, targeted hypertext ad distribution platform capable of serving targeted text advertising to search results pages.
- Created a working online advertising store where ads can be purchased, created and managed.
- Launched a production recipe meta search engine.
Value Proposition: Provide a fraud free alternative to Google Ad Sense and Ad Words, an alternative hypertext ad network.
Baypup is not designed to be a “Google killer” any more than OSX is a “Windows killer”, however, we do hope to provide an elegant and useful alternative to Google, Yahoo and the other big players “that just works”.
About Flatland Industries, Inc.
Flatland Industries was incorporated in Mission, Kansas by Jason Stubblefield in 2005. He had decided to explore the possibilities of building small scale web search engines, or vertical search, and ad delivery systems to monetize those portals.
Jason began developing our brands and search platform in Summer 2005, planning first for a portfolio of niche search engines and web portals. As the first indexes were put on the web for the public in 2006, it became obvious it was also possible to scale the same systems to whole web sized indexes.
We spent almost a year developing our current platform to crawl, index, and deliver web search results. Building the recipe, travel and web searches has been a challenging and often discouraging process, but we believe that the rewards are great for getting it right.
Baypup.com, a second generation search engine developed from the expertise gleaned from our [somewhat neglected] vertical portals, is scalable and able to search hundred million page indexes dozens of times a second. It currently has a 25 million+ page and growing internet index.
Our web search platform is stable, fast, and horizontally scalable. Memory addressing issues resolved by 64 bit computing make scaling to 100,000+ node compute clusters possible. Multi terabyte hard drives allow us to crawl deeper into the web than ever, and multiple core processors allow us to explore semantic clustering and large sets of results.
Despite falling hardware prices, internet search is still a hardware intensive process and requires thousands of clustered servers, gigabits of bandwidth, and a dedicated team of engineers to keep it all running. We must raise capital in order to grow. Investors who understand the potential of internet search can contact us for a prospectus.
