@novasearch

hey wasteof!

This account will be used for posting about new updates to Nova Search & any downtime with our servers or websites.

We’re currently aware of an issue related to our servers. It appears that our server has gone online and as we currently don’t have physical access, we’ll have to inspect in a few hours.

Update: The issue has been fixed as of a few hours ago

On track for 200,000+ by the end of this month!

Looks like we absolutely blew through our expectations, we’re currently crawling through github to make it easier to find stuff there and have exceeded 150,000+ websites crawled!

Since Nova Search was created, we’ve crawled 75,000+ websites, and that’s just the beginning! We’re aiming for at least 100,000 by the end of this month and at least 125,000 by the end of this year.

Soon, we’ll be switching Nova Search to use proper pagination instead of sending a massive json response with all the results found (which is very suboptimal for performance).

Once we’ve got everything up and running, we’ll update the API documentation

Update: Pagination is complete! Say hello to much faster response times

We’ve redesigned our website with a footer and published our new Privacy Policy & Terms of Service! If you use Nova Search, please be sure to read them before continuing use (don’t worry, it’ll take less than a minute).

We also created a Twitter account which instantly got banned after creating, oop

Starting today, if websites don’t provide us with a description, we’ll be making one ourselves using the first 200 characters of text from the webpage. Websites that do not provide us with a description will still be de-ranked on search results.

Furthermore, we’d like to ramp up our crawling & speed to make Nova Search more useful. If you’ve got any URLs you’d like us to start crawling from, let us know in the comments and we’ll start crawling so you can get results from those pages and pages linked on those pages on Nova!

The power has been restored and Nova Search should be back soon, thank you for your patience and sorry for the inconvenience!

Unfortunately, the power has gone out at our server location and won't be back for a bit, meaning you won't be able to use Nova Search.

We are very sorry for this inconvenience and will be posting updates later.

We’ve updated our user interface to be more organised and have some cool new animation! Try it out at https://novasearch.xyz

Introducing Search Apps! Now, when you search for certain things, such as a calculator, search apps will appear that allow you to do those things without leaving Nova Search. More Search Apps coming soon!

Planned Downtime

Nova Search’s API will be going down for hopefully no more than 15 minutes while we transfer everything over to our newer, more powerful server. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Update as of 9:18am AWST: Downtime has commenced, we’ll be back soon

Update as of 9:25am AWST: We’re now back! Expect faster search results :)

Looking to add web search to your project? Nova Search has completely independent search results accessible via our free API.

You can find out how to use & integrate the API into your project with our publicly available API documentation https://docs.novasearch.xyz

We are currently aware of an issue causing our servers to run very slowly and are looking into it

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Update as of 10:10am AWST: It has come to our attention that the issue was caused by a memory leak from another program on the server. The program has been terminated and we’re restarting our server to try and fix any remaining issues.

Final update as of 10:15am AWST: The issue has now been resolved, once again, sorry for the inconvenience

hey wasteof!

This account will be used for posting about new updates to Nova Search & any downtime with our servers or websites.