use lists or import lists without searching for matching engines

kaene

Somehow, a way to use a target list for one specific engine without searching for matching engines.

This would be very very useful for those of us using lists instead of the search feature. I myself compile my lists and then feed SER with them.

This would be only possible when selecting 1 single engine (if only 1 engine is selected and no search engine is selected, one checkbox that would read as "Ignore Engine Matching" or something like that), or specifying the engine when importing the target urls (something like a "Import Target URLs for a Specific Engine" that would ignore the "url must have" and "page must have"). More difficult would be to use it with more than 1 engine, then each should have a feeding list somehow.

Right now it's actually possible to test by selecting only 1 engine, modify the ini and remove the "must have" lines, then feed it with with a list.

Sven

Sorry but I don't see any use in this. The identification on what engine it is is not taking much time if any at all. Even though you can do that already if you improt URLs like this...

http://www.sampleurl.com#engine name

kaene

@Sven you mean, if I import and URLs list with that format, SER would ignore the "must have" verification part and just use the engine I wrote in the line?

Something like this:

http://www.sampleurl1a.com#engine_name1

http://www.sampleurl2a.com#engine_name2

http://www.sampleurl1b.com#engine_name1

http://www.sampleurl1c.com#engine_name1

http://www.sampleurl1c.com#engine_name1

http://www.sampleurl2b.com#engine_name2

Thanks!

Sven

Yes, but again, whats the use in this?

kaene

Because SER may be able to post to sites that would normally be discarded by the "must have" premises, ignoring those premises would help finding those sites and then improving the premises.

Sven

But wouldn't it be better to improve the "page must have" ? This way more sites can be submitted find by search egnines.

kaene

Sure, but that takes much more work, and the problem is, if the rules are very strict to avoid mismatching engines, it's easier to miss some sites, and the more flexible the rules are, the easier to have some false positives. So, if I'm using the SER to harvest sites, then it's fine using the rules, but if I have a list of sites, I prefer to just feed SER with the list without.