Quote from: nanonymousx on April 13, 2016, 04:56:19 AM

Thank you for sharing this web site, I tried it and quite impressed by how many things I can buy from this web site.
Do they run their own search engine or relies on Google?

Thank you for your kind words nanonymousx and the original poster chrisvl is to thank for sharing the article to the fine community here.

To answer your question: We run our own search engine with our own software including web crawlers (spiders), servers and lots of hard work, kind of like "Google for Bitcoin". Though we don't use any technology from Google other than tangentially searching for or investigating new merchant leads by Googling them manually, and usually it's to confirm their acceptance of Bitcoin.

We have a blog where you can read about our technical milestones, challenges and musings:
https://spendabit.co/blog/
https://spendabit.co/blog/full-speed-ahead

You can join our mailing list too, right at the bottom of each blog post:
https://spendabit.co/blog/search-back-up-and-new-backend