Are you crawling these sites yourself, or using the Bing API to get the index?
I'll get into more detail with a blog post tomorrow, but I just used Yahoo/Bing. It was a 3 hr project, figured I didn't need to reinvent the wheel :)
I made a 'search engine' for fun
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Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun
#32You might want to sanitize the placeholder attribute on the results page - in its current state, it is susceptible to XSS.
Thanks for the tip. I was trying to remember what XSS was.
Bam. Foobub.
Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun
#33The website isn't meant to be used for any real utility. What I wanted to demonstrate was just an alternate way to look at search. I think we've just gotten so used to Google and its millions of results; I wondered, what would happen if I took that all away and presented only just a small handful of results?
This actually seems quite nice for a slightly extended dictionary :).
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#34It keeps telling me an apostrophe is the number 39. No, but seriously it looks neat. What are the websites it queries for results? I've seen Yahoo! and Wikipedia so far.
I replied to this above. Just: 'Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Google Answers (lawl), Quora, Stackoverflow.' Stackoverflow comes up when you do coding questions, yahoo answers when you do just random questions. Although, Quora doesn't appear as often as I like. I need to do a bit of tweaking. Here's an example where Quora comes up: http://foobub.com/?s=vu0tran
Pretty cool, I actually searched for Quora as one of the first queries and was surprised it showed up, now I see why!
I'm impressed with the results for most (obviously not esoteric) searches.
One thing: lots of URLs don't wrap or truncate, so you get some overflow, example: http://foobub.com/?s=how+is+babby+form
Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun
#35This just redirected my search to Google. Edit: I see, it's a feature not a bug. My search results weren't found by foobub.
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#36Are you crawling these sites yourself, or using the Bing API to get the index?
I'll get into more detail with a blog post tomorrow, but I just used Yahoo/Bing. It was a 3 hr project, figured I didn't need to reinvent the wheel :)
iI felt the sameway . I just used various apis for unscatter.com you may want to see about getting access to the blekko api if you keep playing with it. iI use some of the slash tags they offer for some search views, it's real easy to work with.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's kind of exactly what I saw, and despite the lack of utility, I was like "Oh! This is nice!"
Sometimes minimal is best. Then again, Google does have the 'I'm feeling lucky' button - maybe that ought to just display a few results for them? Either way, nice experiment!
The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button doesn't actually work anymore. :(
Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun
#38you made a search engine client, it's very different. A search engine is an index atop a corpus of content that you crawl.
It might be useful for you to look at jQuery Masony library for your presentation.
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#39Are you crawling these sites yourself, or using the Bing API to get the index?
I'll get into more detail with a blog post tomorrow, but I just used Yahoo/Bing. It was a 3 hr project, figured I didn't need to reinvent the wheel :)
Are they charging you for requests (over the initial allotment of 5,000 requests per month), if this is done via Bing Web Search API in the Azure Marketplace?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes minimal is best. Then again, Google does have the 'I'm feeling lucky' button - maybe that ought to just display a few results for them? Either way, nice experiment!
The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button doesn't actually work anymore. :(
Yep however now you type what you want, it works some ajax magic, press tab to activate the keyboard shortcuts then hit enter which takes you to the first result.
I use it without thinking about it now and I don't need to touch the mouse bearing in mind I'm on the keyboard typing the search.