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How We Found All Of Optimizley’s Clients

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So this is a search engine for HTML/CSS/JS code instead of content? Seems like a really useful idea, well done. It would be great if you could give an outline of your infrastructure and process, particularly the indexing strategy. Maybe another blog article?

NerdyData Our mobile site is still under development.

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Why would you go to the trouble of blocking Mobile visitors instead of serving them the full version?

Hi chaps, some heads-up

when I tried to access your naked url to get info about pricing, I got flash message that in summary says that your https is broken, then I got this

https://nerdydata.com/

"This domain has just been registered for one of our customers! Domain registration and webhosting at best prices."

Probably you should fix it.

Otherwise, good idea and useful tool. Also, probably 10 creds is not enough for test-drive. Would suggest to move this up to accomodate occasional users - i.e. if I need/use a couple of times a month I will not bother to register/use credit card/etc. Charge regular heavy users ;-)

I get the same error with https, but the http version of the homepage works just fine. See also, https://search.nerdydata.com/

Really cool stuff - though I wish the result limit was moved up to 100 cause a lot of the first page results are repeats

Great site guys! We've been tracking Optimizely and 5000 other technologies for a few years. Optimizely is doing really well - http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Optimizely

This looks like a really bad way to find Optimizely's clients. You can just download all of their .js files from their CDN, then parse the domain names.

How do you do that?

They are integers. You increment the integers. The two second version is: wget -m -np http://cdn.optimizely.com/{1..100000000}.js

Just be careful to not change your user-agent when doing this one, otherwise you would be committing a felony.

I don't know... seems easier to do a search than to setup a server to crawl for files (and even then, how do you know which domain it belongs to?) Looks like they made it 'productized' and easy for anyone to use.

Also, reginaldjcooper is right... this sounds like you're just brute forcing optimizely lol

Great lil biz intelligence hack.

Bravo!

You guys are doing some interesting things, but you desperately need to kill your credits system and slap some adsense on there for the time being. Any buzz and growth you could be building at this stage is going to be seriously hampered by charging for a search service, even if it is to a specialized audience.

Their audience is mainly comprised of web developers and marketing companies, I presume. I don't think this would be a good audience to show AdSense ads.

On the other hand, it's a good audience to slap an invite to open their wallets, give NerdyData $99 a month, and they'll let them use this thing that will help them make more money.

I don't think they've nailed the business plan yet, but they're on the right direction.

People who want to use their search engine for non-professional, hobbyist interests can use the free plan: 200 credits, 10 results, although it lacks some features that are interesting for web development and web marketing.

That is an incredibly bad idea. The people who would use this value the data and are willing to pay a lot of money for it. Secondly they are not going to be doing many searches. The Google search monitization strategy will not work. This guys have the right idea, copy the way BuiltWith.com makes money.

I don't know, there was a lot of griping about the credits in the previous NerdyData threads on HN, and HNers are their target market.

I think having the service free, or providing 90 day free trials, would help their adoption significantly at this stage in the game.

I know Patio11 would disagree, but I think trying to monetize at this stage is unwise.

Just to be clear, I'm not really suggesting that they're going to make serious money with adsense. Maybe they could cover their hosting for the time being, though.

lol you developers sound so entitled. "90 day free trials" hah, when its your product you may want to price it though i bet?

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