Speckly

Search engine tuning

Hope everyone had a good xmas!  We've been getting lots of feedback about which search engines are performing and which ones are noisy.  To put some vocal minds at ease we've temporarily disabled search results from seedpeer.com, a lot of comments we received said that there were too many dead links turning up.  We'll look at tuning seedpeer results and a/b testing with another popular engine to get things back on track.

Suggestions would be awesome, and thanks to everyone who wrote in to let us know about their experiences with speckly.

uTorrent tip

We've been quietly chipping away at a few exciting things here at Speckly HQ that are in alpha, hope to share them all with you in the coming weeks.

In the meantime we got a question through our UserVoice Feedback Forum that we thought we'd answer here:

"Is there a way to add Speckly to the utorrent UI Extras? In other words, it would be nice to do a Speckly search from within utorrent"

Being big fans of uTorrent we thought we'd share this tip: yes, it is possible to do a Speckly search from inside uTorrent!  Simply follow these steps:

1. Run uTorrent and go to Options->Preferences->Advanced->UI Extras.
2. In the box marked Search Engines enter the following on the first line:
    Speckly|http://www.speckly.com/s?q=
3. Now the default search engine will point to speckly.com; whenever you do a torrent search from inside uTorrent you'll get some nice results from us.

Here's a screenshot to make things clearer, enjoy: