Archive for the ‘Search’ Category

Maybank2u Agent M with Pidgin on Ubuntu

Monday, March 30th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_270" align="alignright" width="234" caption="Maybank2u Agent M"][/caption] The Malaysian web can be a frustrating experience if you're not using any Microsoft products. Maybank2u have an 'online banking buddy' to help their customers ask questions and avoid giving them answers. We were recently wondering about changing online merchant payment processors, and considered ...

Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm: Levenshtein with transpositions

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

I'm still working away slowly at Spider.my, and spotted a funny loop in the search suggestions: [caption id="attachment_117" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Search for Teusday - how about Thursday?"][/caption]The helpful hint is "maybe 'thursday' would get more results?". I'm using a simple Levenshtein distance algorithm to provide hints when only a few results ...

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 ...

Like Cuil. But with no funding, no style and no data.

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

[caption id="attachment_53" align="alignright" width="160" caption=" - Mandelbrot"][/caption] I've been working so late recently, I've been early. It's silly, working late. I've been sitting here working at a glacial pace, thinking "I must go to sleep", until I can hear birds singing, the window starts to get bright again, and ...