I'm very sad to say that after 7 years of serving aggregated job search results UKlug has been closed.
UKlug helped me:
- Buy our first house!
- Broaden my technical skills!
- Fund my Mathematics degree!
UKlug has been very good for me and I wouldn't be working at Yahoo! had I not
taken this project on. There are a few people that deserve a mention. Dean Wilson
for suggesting Google Ads all those years ago. Google for being a silent but great
business partner. Most of all I would like to say thanks to Jenny for for putting
up with me working every weekend, for listening to my daft ideas about what I was
about to do next on the site etc and for saying yes.
Why am I closing UKlug!
I'm leaving the UK for a job with Yahoo! in San Francisco. The servers
etc where based in the UK and since this whole operation was run by me I would
be unable to physically manage the servers. I don't have time to move the site
to a cloud solution so I took the decision to learn from what I've done and
close the site. I'll probably build a new vertical search engine at some point.
If anyone is interested in doing this as a joint project you can find me
at my personal website. Please only contact me if:
- You have serious technical skills and understand search!
- You're willing to spend every weekend working for no money!
- You're willing to spend substantial sums of your money on a project!
- You're based in California!
OR
- You're a VC looking to invest in a vertical search startup!
