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Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun

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Post by vu0tran » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 11:44 PM UTC

hnriot wrote: post #38

you 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.

Yeah, I knew I must have been missing something. That's why I put "search engine" in quotes. :)

Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun

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Post by Katelyn » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 12:11 AM UTC

jere wrote: post #5

Neat. So it just searches wikipedia? If so, I can't really complain. 95% of my searches are followed by "wiki" normally so I can get wikipedia first.

I thought I was the only one who does this. There should be an easier way..

Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun

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Post by uiri » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 12:21 AM UTC

Katelyn wrote: post #42

jere wrote: post #5

Neat. So it just searches wikipedia? If so, I can't really complain. 95% of my searches are followed by "wiki" normally so I can get wikipedia first.

I thought I was the only one who does this. There should be an easier way..

I made something similar to foobub which takes you to wikipedia on exact title matches: http://s.xqz.ca/ I use it primarily from my URL bar.

Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun

#44

Post by jusuchin » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 12:24 AM UTC

Youch... inline styling and javascript outside of the closing tag..

Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun

#45

Post by hackerlass » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 1:01 AM UTC

Neat, would like to see the code. If you're crawling sites yourself, that would be really interesting. Nice work.

Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun

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Post by gabemart » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 1:04 AM UTC

Katelyn wrote: post #42

jere wrote: post #5

Neat. So it just searches wikipedia? If so, I can't really complain. 95% of my searches are followed by "wiki" normally so I can get wikipedia first.

I thought I was the only one who does this. There should be an easier way..

In chrome, go to settings > manage search engines. Add a new engine with the parameters:

   name:wiki
   keyword: w
   URL: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=inurl:en.wikipedia %s&btnI=745

Once saved, in chrome's address bar type "w foo" and press enter and you'll go directly to the wikipedia article on foo

By routing through google, it's also much more tolerant of misspellings.

Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun

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Post by mintplant » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 1:17 AM UTC

Huh. This is actually rather good for programming searches; surfaced some useful things I hadn't seen before. Bookmarked. Thanks!

Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun

#48

Post by pgrote » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 2:28 AM UTC

Odd. The auto complete in Chrome shows me the WordPress extensions I have installed on my sites.

Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun

#49

Post by pbhjpbhj » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 2:37 AM UTC

mochizuki wrote: post #7

It 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.

&#39 gives ' (ie it's the ASCII in hex of apostrophe)

Re: I made a 'search engine' for fun

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Post by mst » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 3:57 AM UTC

Katelyn wrote: post #42

jere wrote: post #5

Neat. So it just searches wikipedia? If so, I can't really complain. 95% of my searches are followed by "wiki" normally so I can get wikipedia first.

I thought I was the only one who does this. There should be an easier way..

If there's a wikipedia page for your search term then generally duckduckgo shows it at the top - also http://enwp.org/Article_Name is nice.