• November 5, 2009...11 PM MT...Some customer-facing downtime is to be expected.

Release Notes

October 14, 2009

• Lijit Ad Network out of Beta

  We are officially launching the Lijit Ad Network and coming out of "beta" with a simplified Revenue Share/Advertising Opt-In process and more ways for web publishers to make money with Lijit.

• Google Gadget

  We have launched a Google gadget that allows for a quick and easy install of our search widget on Blogger blogs.

• Twitpic Integration

  You can now add Twitpic as a content source for your search engine and Lijit will return thumbnail images for Twitpic within search results.

October 1, 2009

• We decided to disable and remove the "What's the Connection" feature from our search results pages. This will increase search performance and allow more room for search results on the page.

September 16, 2009

• Embedded Search Results Ad Changes We have created new functionality that automatically streamlines the ad zones displayed in embedded search results, enabling publishers to use the embedded results method even if they don't have a wide content area to place them.

• Welcome Widget This feature is an enhancement to our existing "Re-Search" feature that welcomes readers to a publisher's site when visiting from a search engine or referred from another site.

August 26, 2009

• Quick Install Options for Ad Widgets: Publishers now have "quick install" options for their ad widgets which means that Typepad and Blogger users can now use one-click install methods to get Lijit ad zones on their sites.
• Non-US Publishers W9 Requirements: We no longer require our non-US based publishers to provide us with U.S. specific tax information, and we've streamlined the payment process to make life a little bit easier for these customers.
• Search Enhancements for Lijit Thumbnails: We updated our search engine logic to favor search results that contain thumbnail information which should increase the number of results that have thumbnails and improve the overall quality of search results for our users.

August 11, 2009

• New Publisher Categories: Publishers can now self-categorize themselves with three new options when signing up for Revenue Sharing, and Advertisers can then target these categories: Home and Garden, Real Estate and Science.
• Searches work during system maintenance: This feature allows us to continue serving search results to readers while we are performing system maintenance.
• Stats enhancements: We updated the way we process wijit views and searches which will allow that data to show up in publishers stats at a faster rate.
• Feed Crawler Updates: We changed the platform we use for crawling our publishers RSS feeds which means faster and fresher results for all of our publishers.
• Web Crawler Enhancements: We implemented logic that allows us to better follow redirects while crawling a website, providing more thorough results on sites where we previously had trouble crawling their content.
• Sitemap crawling: This allows us to utilize the sitemap.xml file to help us get content that we normally would have missed using our existing crawling logic.

June 24, 2009

• Lijit now offers a fun, new, interactive feature overview, which is available from our home page, signup page, and About page. (Look for the "Lijit Feature List" buttons/links.)
• You now have the option to embed Lijit search results in a page on your site. You can find this option on the Search Wijit configuration page -- in the "Display search results" drop down menu, pick "On my blog (embedded)" and enter the information requested.
• In our never ending quest for speed, we have made further enhancements to our search result page to make it display even more quickly and efficiently.
• In this release we also introduced a capability that will allow us to deploy some of our future software releases in a way that requires no service downtime. So keep an eye out here for new features that we sneak in on you...

June 9, 2009

• No customer-facing features were included in this release.

May 7, 2009

• For users of Chrome and Safari, the Search Wijit’s search button and search input field now display more consistently across browsers.
• Various minor display bugs were addressed in the All-In-One Wijit.
• The Search Wijit and search result overlay are more resilient and display more consistently across all browsers, even when the site upon which they live has flawed code.
• The Search Wijit is loaded in two phases, which makes it display faster.