Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Writing a search engine widget for firefox / IE7

Friday, August 15th, 2008

I had been wondering how difficult it would be to make a search engine widget for spider.my - there's so much important stuff yet to be done, but I got distracted by the gloss! The great news is - very easy! You can visit spider.my now and add its search ...

Search suggestions with MYSQL Levenshtein distance

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Up until a couple of days ago, the Spider.my search page applied only minimal formatting to hits, and no extra page decoration. The 'blank screen of death' appeared for a search miss: no results, no page content. Just to reassure the user the empty page was 'normal', I'd put a lame ...

What’s my IP address?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

While working on the ZoneEdit update script, I did a survey of IP address checking techniques, 4 of them described below, and a fifth prototype which I think is the fastest and simplest IP address check on the Internet. I host several sites on servers in my home. I have ...

Google AdSense on WordPress

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I'm enjoying using WordPress - some things have just been designed very well. I searched for advice on getting AdSense advertisements on my blog, and ended up installing a couple of different AdSense plugins that were ... okay, but seemed a bit overkill for what I want. It's actually very ...

Google AdSense up again

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

I posted an article about a surprise 'unavailable' message I got last time I visited Google AdSense. That sort of article really deserves a follow-up, so I checked online and found a useful post at the Digital Point forum that refers to AdSense's own blog at BlogSpot. There you can read ...