Offres-Travail.com
Independent job platform with one of the largest job counts in France: 165,000+ live listings, 1,500 new ones a day, automatic CV parsing, two-click applications, e-mail alerts and a recruiter area.
Web platforms & tools · Search engine
Similars.net
An engine that finds similar sites and alternatives to any website, over an index of more than 14 million domains, with similarity scores, categories and an API.
- sites covered
- 14.2 M
- combined signals: content, category, traffic
- 3
- JSON API for developers
- 1
- between two recalculations
- 24 h
-- The challenge
Finding your competitors, link partners or simply “a site like this one” is surprisingly hard with a regular search engine. It meant comparing millions of sites with each other and ranking the results in an understandable way.
One of the highest-traffic sites in the fleet, which forced every query to be optimised.
-- features
What the site does
01
“Alternatives to” pages
For every domain, a list of close sites ranked by similarity score.
02
Categories
Browse by topic to discover the players in a sector.
03
Community ranking
The week’s most-liked sites, voted by visitors.
04
Statistics
Traffic rank and key facts to compare sites with each other.
05
API
Similar-site lookups through an API, with free and paid plans.
06
User area
Dashboard, API usage and billing.
-- pipeline
How it is built
Collection
An index of millions of domains, continuously enriched.
Scoring
Composite similarity: content proximity, shared taxonomy, traffic rank.
Computation
Nightly recalculations and caching of the most requested pages.
Quality
A centralised adult-content filter that self-corrects to limit false positives.
-- screenshots
Screenshots
-- Technologies
- PHP
- MySQL
- Elasticsearch
- Clustering
- REST API
- Stripe
- Nightly crons
-- related
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