and there you have it: nobody uses it because nobody knows of it.
of course for a bot it is easy to remember your site, its just another url in a long list of others... but what does a human do? they go to their fav search site, be it duck duck go, google or bing... perhaps even yahoo.
i remember when google just started out, back then you would have used askjeeves, altavista or yahoo... google was really good compared to those... and the name was new, kinda orthogonal to existing search engines (except yahoo perhaps) and perhaps the most important bit: the site was "clean" except for the searchbar, there was nothing distracting there. you opened it and knew it is for looking up stuff
now, to join in, this late in the game? difficult. difficult.
maybe it would be easier if it specialized for some niche? idk.
dear OP: i'll try to remember your searchengine, but i cant promise to become a regular
of course for a bot it is easy to remember your site, its just another url in a long list of others... but what does a human do? they go to their fav search site, be it duck duck go, google or bing... perhaps even yahoo.
i remember when google just started out, back then you would have used askjeeves, altavista or yahoo... google was really good compared to those... and the name was new, kinda orthogonal to existing search engines (except yahoo perhaps) and perhaps the most important bit: the site was "clean" except for the searchbar, there was nothing distracting there. you opened it and knew it is for looking up stuff
now, to join in, this late in the game? difficult. difficult.
maybe it would be easier if it specialized for some niche? idk.
dear OP: i'll try to remember your searchengine, but i cant promise to become a regular