Archive for the ‘Search’ Category
Wednesday, July 10th, 2013
Someone forwarded me a photo of Muslims in burqa / niqab today by email with a comment about "incongruity". Here it is:
I wasn't immediately convinced it couldn't have been improved for comic effect using something like gimp. I searched for "Image Search", thinking I could just find similar images and ...
Posted in Life, Philosophy, Search, Useful | No Comments »
Friday, October 26th, 2012
I made a multi-language page for Lolyco.com recently that switches between language based on the Accept-Language header sent by the User-Agent or by setting a session variable. There's an English version (the default), a Malay version and a Chinese version. I've had sites online before that are aggressively crawled by ...
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Saturday, February 5th, 2011
When did that happen? In a demo that reminded me of days working in large software houses, I showed my brother-in-law how he could add Google to his IE9 search engine list by just going to Google's homepage and right-clicking the search engine drop-down list for the "Add Google Search..." ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
[caption id="attachment_1038" align="alignright" width="237" caption="Spider.my mobile search on my Nokia 6500 Classic"][/caption]
Spider.my really wasn't working very well on any of our mobile phones (handphones as they're called in Malaysia), as the search had been using a terrible cross-domain javascript hack to fetch results from the back-end. A couple of things ...
Posted in Search, Spider.my, Uncategorized, Useful | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
[caption id="attachment_1000" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Suggestions in Firefox from the spider.my OpenSearch facility"][/caption]
I've been working on spider.my for too long with no updates, so I've moved a recent version of the site online. I don't have enough spare resources for a separate development system, so it may occasionally appear to be ...
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