IRSeek utilizies the power of the people on IRC and brings it to the rest of the community to enjoy and learn from.

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) remains one of the most active platforms for sharing knowledge and collaborating on the Internet. www.IRSeek.com (still in Beta) strives to make this hidden gem available to the entire Internet community. By constantly archiving active, highly-focused, public chat-rooms in a wide variety of topics then indexing, processing and publishing the content on the web using advanced Web 2.0 technologies while maintaining the privacy of the users, we are creating a knowledge base different from any other.

IRSeek is in the lookout for talented developers with extensive experience in developing highly robust, scalable and secure applications:

• Proficient Web developers with experience in the following web-technologies: PHP, HTML, AJAX.
• Proficient C++ developers with experience in network programming, multi-processes and high-availability systems.
• Proficient Linux system administrators with high-traffic, high-availability experience.

To learn about the people behind IRSeek, click here.

If you'd like to search the entire knowledge-base, simply type in the keywords and click search. You'll then be presented with a list of results sorted by relevance.

If you'd like to search a certain channel or a network, make sure to type the corresponding names inside the text-box together with the desired query string.

Inside the conversation window, you can highlight a certain user (or users), by clicking on their nickname in order to help you track a certain conversation. Furthermore, if you would like to hide (or unhide) a certain user (or users) from the conversation, simply click on the tiny person icon to the left of the nickname you would like to hide (the list of users is narrow window on the right hand side).

Disclaimer: IRSeek is neither affiliated with the authors of the discussions nor responsible for their content. For additional questions, please contact us.

Based on the feedback we have received from the community, we have changed our service to meet the concerns of many IRC users. It is clear that the support of the community is paramount. We have decided to remove all logs that had been archived prior to IRSeek's recent changes. We have started to archive new content with the approval of the respective network and channel operators. The following changes have been applied based on suggestions and requests from IRC operators and users:

Opt-in and opt-out policies:

Opt-in: Channel operators (or channel contacts) that want their channel(s) added to our service will submit a form on our website with the requested channel name, network name, and contact information (preferably a nickname on IRC). IRSeek support will then confirm the validity of the contact and add that channel to our service.
Opt-out: Channel operators (or channel contacts) that want their channel(s) removed from our service will submit a form on our website with the requested channel name, network name, and contact information (preferably a nickname on IRC). IRSeek support will then confirm that validity of the contact and remove that channel from our service. Furthermore, the contact person could optionally request that we remove historic data for that channel as well.
The reason both opt-in and opt-out are available is that different IRC Network Operators suggested different approaches according to the nature of their network.

Easily identifiable logging bots:
IRSeek bots will use the IRSeekBot prefix for all its bots. In cases that there is more than one bot on a network, the bots will be numbered (e.g. IRSeekBot2). In cases where the nickname is too long (may vary on a per-network bases), the IRSeek prefix will be used instead. Moreover, the Real-Name and User-Name fields will be informative and may contain the URL of IRSeek. This modification will allow users and operators to easily spot the IRSeek bot and if so wish, act accordingly.

Limited archive period:
IRSeek will keep channel logs for upto 7-years (for example, a message that has been archived by our log-bots on January 1st, 2001 will be kept in our database until January 1st, 2008, unless a channel contact/operator has specifically requested that we remove it before that time). This policy will reduce the concern that a message once sent to a logged-channel will be archived forever.