Posted by Marcio Castilho
on October 15, 2008
One of the first major public websites to use the PageGlimpse Website Thumbnails Platform is a very modern search engine implementation that displays previews of websites along the search results. uQuery.com integrates nicely with PageGlimpse and has helped us collect and capture millions of new URLs into our website snapshot database.
PageGlimpse was built from the ground up with scalability in mind since the beginning and we are starting to see many new cool implementations that uses our service.
See how uQuery.com is integrating our services here.
Posted by Marcio Castilho
on October 02, 2008
We have been working hard in the last 2 years to delivery a very stable, fast and scalable infrastructure to queue, capture, cache and deliver thumbnails of websites to many different developers and website publishers. When we started this project in 2006, we simply didn’t want to create another website thumbnails service, but a very well designed cluster of different applications, webservices and technologies that would be able to scale efficiently as demand grows.
Since our team is formed by highly senior software engineers with background in C++, distributed applications, and high availability enterprise services, we sat down and developed an incredible platform.
We also chose the Amazon Web Services infrastructure to handle many moving parts of this system, from the automated queuing system, thumbnails storage on S3 and the cluster of webservers on Elastic Compute Cloud.
With all these technologies that we could leverage we were able to create a fantastic and super fast service that will provide you with a level of quality that is lacking in many of the other thumbnails service providers out there.
Make sure to sign up for our private Beta and we will send an invitation.
Posted by Marcio Castilho
on September 20, 2008
Finally we’re able to open our platform for private beta testing. If you want to try the service first hand, go to http://www.pageglimpse.com/beta and register for the private beta. Another way to register is to send an email to beta [at] pageglimpse [dot] com. Please include your email address in the subject.
In the following days we’ll be posting more details about the status of the service, so keep checking back here!
