History/background:
The idea of launching Sunsteam Search was conceived in May 1999, and after a few months of preparations we went online in October the same year.
In the beginning the idea was to see if we could create a searchengine. We had no long term plans or motives. As time went by we saw the number of users grow, and were motivated to keep putting hours into it. We changed the searchscripts, and with it came a series of host changes. The scripts required more and more, and so we changed to hosts with less limitations all the time spending more and more money until we had a host giving us complete freedom.
With our somewhat unexpected growth came a set of new tasks. We made strategic plans focusing on how to attract visitors and how to make them return. We found the key methods to be regular updating of all pages, providing new services, and of course advertising.
The updating we knew we could do, but the others we thought would be a hard challenge. We where therefore amazed when we started receiving mails from companies asking if we would like to use their services on our pages. This made this part of our strategy much easier than we expected. The toughest part therefore turned out to be advertising. Being a company with limited funds we had to find inexpensive advertising methods and tried banners, press releases, classified ads, newsletter ads, and loads of other things, all with varied results. The important thing is that we learned all the way.
Interesting facts.
Sunsteam Search is a 100% Internet based company. Every single idea, every single process, every single little thing concerning Sunsteam has been discussed, shaped, and realized online. Its creators, Lars and Sjur, have never even met in real life.
We do not pay for any services, except for hosting. All the Sunsteam services are either made by ourselves or provided at no cost to us by other sites. In return they get full credits and everyone is happy:)
We are open for all suggestions about collaboration with other sites, contact us thru
this
form.
Today:
Today, one and a half year after launch, Sunsteam Search has the following to offer:
- A huge database of urls
sorted into thousands of categories.
We accept every url submitted as long as it doesn't violate our "submission rules"
People can write their own site-description when adding it. If they don't our script will visit the site and collect all the required information.
Giving exact numbers is impossible as the Database grows every minute.
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Domain Search
Check if a domain is avaiable and find out who owns it if it's not.
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People Search
Locate a person by searching for names, e-mail addresses, snail-mail adresses and more.
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MP3 Search
Find all the music in the world.
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Free Traslation Services
Translate text or entire websites. Currently avaiable languages are English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
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Frequently updated news covering everything from finance to gaming
Aruond the clock updated World and Technology News.
A Financial section with constantly updated searchable stock quotes
with statistics.
Weekly updated gamenews, constantly updated patch releases, aswell
as cheats and hints.
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Discussion Boards
Discuss whatever you like. Get to administrate your own group by requesting it from us.
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Free Classified Ad Service
Announce, promote, sell or request anything you like in the following categories:
Announcements, Autos and Motorcycles, Business Opportunities, Computers and Software, Employment, General Merchandise, Personals, Real Estate, Rentals and Roommates, and Services Offered..
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Webdesign Services
We offer porfessional webdesign at very low prices.
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CGI Program Setup Services
Classified ads, Domain Lookup, Messageboard, Ranking systems, Survey and voting systems, Guestbook, and Process forms such as for feedback, suggestions orders, or whatever you require.
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Comprehensive eMarketing Guide with reseller program!
One of the most complete guides to online marketing ever created. We invested in several great similar packages, tried every single tip they had to offer, and extracted the most successful methods from all of them into one fantastic guide.
Free updates to all who buy it.
Promote the package on your own site and get percentages of every sale made from your page..
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Domain name marketplace
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Guestbook (comming soon)
Leave your comments here for everyone to read.
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Free List of the best Promotion Resources online
Huge constantly updated list of the best Promotion Resources online.
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Free Sunsteam Searchfield to add to your own page
A great feature to any website, allowing your visitors to search our entire database for what they are looking for.
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Free monthly newsletter
Newsletter informing subscribers of changes made to the site the
last month, as well as giving away free information and tips on
various subjects requested by it's readers.
- Constant comunication with our users enabling us to make changes,
additions, and improvments
based on their feedback and requests.
New stuff (January 2001):
- Boolean operators allowing you to better specify your
search.
- Category search to easily find the categories you want to
browse or add your url in.
Comming soon:
- Adult Filter can be set to ignore the adult categories
when performing a search.
- Other Relevant Categories pop-up with search results.
Planned for the future:
- Free Greetingcards for every occation.
- Free Mail accounts
- Streaming Video and Audio Search
- FTP Search
- New specified news categories
- Free online games
- Competitions with great prices
Partners:
Investors 4 investors
Provides the finance section.
Hurricane Electrics
Our host which provide a great service and who are more than willing to help with technical questions.
Systran
A great free translation service.
Reporting.Net
Affiliate program
Flycast / Engage Media
Provide us with sponsors (main banner ads)
ClickAgents
Provide us with sponsors (small banner ads)
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