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      Error code and not being able to save config I install the script but I'm having problems making it work.
I can't get it to save the type of skin that I want it to use.
When I try to save it in admin under ... | 
      
      tjk1058  |       
      Aug-11-11 02:59 AM  by yaqin | 
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      Hosting issue Hi
I was contacted by my hosting company who say the site with FatBomb on is running a permanent process.
Upon further investigation this is the problem:
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      kiosk2  |       
      Jan-22-08 02:49 PM  by Kurt | 
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      FATBOMB TO SEARCH BOARDS? Could Fatbomb be used (or modified)to search (several) information sources e.g. boards for specified keywords?... | 
      
      blue_sky  |       
      Sep-30-07 04:57 AM  by Kurt | 
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      Using FatBomb Custom Databases This is the Official Thread for all discussion concerning creating and managing your own custom databases.... | 
      
      Kurt  |       
      Sep-21-07 06:05 AM  by gilc | 
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      FatBomb Engine Updates Download this zip, unzip, then over-write the old engine files (in the "engines" folder) with the newer ones:
www.dombom.com/fatbomb-engines-6-04-2007.zip... | 
      
      Kurt  |       
      Jul-16-07 01:58 AM  by Kurt | 
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      Sucking pages - Converting dynamic to static pages I'll get into this a little more, but for now here's a quick intro...
The first thing you need to do, is download the free page "sucker":
www.httrack.com%... | 
      
      Kurt  |       
      Mar-29-07 08:47 AM  by Kurt | 
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      Including just fatty results without the page Is there a way to include fatty results in an already existing page template? 
(I am not talking about sucking, splitting and including them with randomz or using an I... | 
      
      blue_sky  |       
      Jan-31-07 01:55 PM  by Kurt | 
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      Including Fatty results via includes Hi I am trying to include fatty results as explained in the thread below but could not get it to work - 
I am always getting the message: 
"an error occurred while ... | 
      
      blue_sky  |       
      Jan-31-07 06:56 AM  by blue_sky | 
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      FatBomb Installation Upload everything in ASCII/text mode using your FTP programs.
Set permissions of fatbomb.cgi to 755.
That's it.
Strongly suggested:
Either before or aft... | 
      
      Kurt  |       
      Jan-03-07 07:52 AM  by blue_sky | 
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      Official: Included Skins  Unless you REALLY REALLY know what you're doing AND you have already driven plenty of traffic to your Fatbomb, I suggest you use one of the templates provided.
IMO%2... | 
      
      Kurt  |       
      Dec-06-06 07:52 AM  by mmurtha | 
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      I have a couple of hosting questions about Fatty, an you help? Hi everyone,
I have a couple of quick questions about hosting Fat Bombs.  Can you guys help so I can get up and running?
I've been trying to find out just what... | 
      
      mmurtha  |       
      Oct-31-06 03:15 PM  by mmurtha | 
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      how to get new version of FatBomb ????? about 2 years ago i purchsed fatbomb and would like to reinstall it in a project, how can I get at the newer version... | 
      
      trickydigit  |       
      Sep-21-06 09:51 AM  by Kurt | 
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      Hosting Multiple Copies of Fatbomb on 1 Server Hi!  Hope everything is going well for everybody here.
I noticed a previous forum poster say that his host told him Fatbomb was using too much of the server's resourc... | 
      
      getmikey  |       
      May-26-06 01:25 PM  by Kurt | 
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      Fatbomb Support I looked for a Fatbomb Support topic and couldn't find one.  Possibly the Fatbomb Support people can cover this thread.
I just noticed something interesting with my Fat... | 
      
      ezrydn  |       
      Apr-20-06 12:44 PM  by kelvin brown | 
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      Using PHP within search result pages? Can anyone explain to me how we might go about adding our own php
code within the search results pages or possibly a link to a post
about it here in the forums?
Tha... | 
      
      Patrick_M  |       
      Apr-14-06 02:47 PM  by Patrick_M | 
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      Creating a Niche Search Engine While FatBomb will return results for just about anything, depending on your settings, you'll probably get better results create a "niche" search engine (or 2).%... | 
      
      Kurt  |       
      Apr-14-06 02:41 PM  by Kurt | 
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      Generate Search Box  purpose I have some questions regarding the Generate Search Box section of Fatbomb 2.0.
1. When I click the generate button, it puts in the skin and value but the url is always... | 
      
      Jon12345  |       
      Apr-13-06 07:17 AM  by Kurt | 
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      Renaming fatbomb folder I seem to be having a problem using fatbomb after I rename it. I rename the fatbomb folder and fatbomb.cgi.
What else has to be modded? I can't seen to find anyhting ... | 
      
      sedriskill  |       
      Apr-10-06 02:42 AM  by sedriskill | 
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      dynamic internal links Hi,
Since there are both now new and old fatbomb users, I was wondering if anyone had any (ideas, experince, code, etc) on how to pull dynamic links (m... | 
      
      sedriskill  |       
      Apr-09-06 08:52 AM  by sedriskill | 
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      how can I select which SE Hi,
How can I select which SE for fatbamb to pull from? I see all the enginge.pl's but what do I do to select/deselct them from the original install? Is there a... | 
      
      sedriskill  |       
      Apr-07-06 11:17 AM  by Kurt | 
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      FatBomb  Templates and Skins This is the Official Thread for all stuff relating to using FatBomb templates and skins.... | 
      
      Kurt  |       
      Mar-14-05 06:50 PM  by jeffhope | 
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      Fatbomb Pages taking much longer to load. Hello,
I have used Fatbomb for 3 months now and it has been great. However the pages of the website that I now run fatbomb on is now taking a LOT longer to load e.g wha... | 
      
      Ambassador7  |       
      Feb-01-05 07:12 AM  by jeffhope | 
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      Can I make fatbomb a bit thinner Hi
In the fatbomb download I got I seem to have a messageboard and a few other folders/files that I'm wondering whether I can delete.
Can I delete these? they ... | 
      
      Shipsy  |       
      Dec-11-04 10:53 AM  by Shipsy | 
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      Mysterious Fatbomb  Error I just started getting this little error here:
The directory 'data/cache/dmoz-2122' does not exist at lib/Gamma/Cache.pm line 57.
FatBomb
Software Er... | 
      
      tradermaceo  |       
      Nov-11-04 07:13 PM  by tradermaceo | 
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      Open Source Nearby Engine I hope this is the correct place to post this.  I did a search of the forum and didnt't see moble maps mentioned so I thought it might be of value.
I ran into this open... | 
      
      georgesepich  |       
      Nov-08-04 11:51 AM  by georgesepich | 
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      How do you limit the size of the link description? Hi....Just bought FatBomb and SpiderBomb...Lots to learn, but I'm enjoying it!  Kurt, I shopped around, and there really isn't anything else out there like what Do... | 
      
      loansies |       
      Oct-27-04 09:13 PM  by Poker | 
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      Cherry/Fat combined question Or, maybe this is just food for thought for some bomber to come up with a script to answer it.
If we use Cherrybomb and Fatbomb, we have two different sets of results... | 
      
      ezrydn  |       
      Sep-30-04 09:14 AM  by targetman | 
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      how do I download the script? just check out my subject
-Tony... | 
      
      tonyrocks  |       
      Sep-27-04 07:08 PM  by Poker | 
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      Update Google engine file ! Use this file and replace google.pl in the directory "engines" !
Found the solution.. Sometimes "Translate..." appears !
Still a little problem is that only... | 
      
      tasari  |       
      Sep-09-04 01:08 PM  by tasari | 
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      fatbomb.cgi/? converted to fatbomb.cgi? All,
Ever wonder why when calling fatbomb you had to always put the extra "/" before the "?" mark like:
fatbomb.cgi/?keywords=atlanta
If y... | 
      
      bscrivener  |       
      Sep-05-04 02:27 AM  by tsuyoshi | 
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      What Engines Are Permitted? Does anyone know what search engines let use their data?
Or, what information can I use without permission, without infringing copyrights?
Thanks... | 
      
      Bob   |       
      Aug-26-04 11:42 AM  by Poker | 
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      "Readjusting" Databases for FatBomb FatBomb lets you use a variety of resources as content.  If you have links, chances are they are easy to incorporate into a FatBomb search.
You just need to get them in... | 
      
      Kurt  |       
      Jul-21-04 12:04 PM  by rob | 
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      Access To Private Forum? I'm not sure where best to place this post...
Having registered for the Forums, downloaded and installed FatBomb, I've been trawling for ideas.  On several occ... | 
      
      erika1959  |       
      Jul-19-04 05:45 PM  by erika1959 | 
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      Creating html pages with Fatbomb results !  How do I make of /cgi-bin/fatbomb/fatbomb.cgi an index page ?
index.html :
 
and upload .htaccess (for SSI) ? I also get an error..
Of course... | 
      
      tasari  |       
      Jul-15-04 06:38 PM  by kelvin brown | 
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      Fatbomb and Server resources? Recently my host's abuse people emailed me saying that a script on the system is using up too many resources.  According to them, The script in question is my fatbomb .cgi... | 
      
      ronzta |       
      Jun-27-04 06:14 PM  by ronzta | 
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      Getting search engine(s) results with FatBomb I am having trouble getting results from Google and Yahoo.
I always no results.. 
Like Chris said I created another directory in data.. called db.. I added spiderhub.txt i... | 
      
      tasari  |       
      Jun-20-04 07:16 PM  by tasari | 
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      adding javascript Greetings. 
I have modified the default-box.html file so that the search area corresponds to my format, but I can't seem to get that page to read javascript (so tha... | 
      
      craigrom |       
      Jun-18-04 05:46 PM  by totenmaske | 
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      FatBomb leads the way and the major SEs follow. Preview feature.
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3367361
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Jason D... | 
      
      strangelogic |       
      Jun-12-04 04:55 PM  by ezrydn | 
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      search engine placement Not sure how it happened, but someone searched for
"FatBomb Search Engine"
My site is #1 and more than half of the top 12 are my sites.
Maybe it's not... | 
      
      kelvin brown  |       
      Jun-01-04 02:54 PM  by kelvin brown | 
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      fatbomb search fatbomb displays search results for first database that I entered, but when I click on page2 or 3,etc. it displays my index page. Same thing happens when I type new search... | 
      
      Roger |       
      May-20-04 03:15 AM  by Roger | 
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      FTC's View on Search Engine Advertising If you are using FatBomb, you are a "search engine" and the following will definitely apply to you...
Note: This is a US Gov doc, so it can be copied...
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      Kurt  |       
      May-13-04 03:40 PM  by Kurt | 
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      Using robots.txt files  This article describes how to keep search engines from including your pages, and is re-published with permission:
Working With The robots.txt File
By Jagd... | 
      
      Kurt  |       
      Apr-16-04 12:14 PM  by Kurt | 
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