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Creating a Firefox search plugin
I usually create plugins for my favorite search engines (aside from what’s already rolled with the browser).
I’ve recently made one for the new kid on the block, Wolfram|Alpha. While not technically a “search engine”, Wolfram|Alpha does offer some interesting possibilties (its goals are rather ambitious — much like Google’s plan to “organize all the world’s [...]
Coredump in Google search hits
I’ve been reviewing this blog’s site stats in Google Webmaster Tools, and found this in the query stats:
Interesting. I’m the top hit in [metawire account] (for the now-defunct Metawire.org site that offers free OpenBSD shell accounts). I also placed second in [chikkatalk], next to Chikka’s official FAQ page.
My PR stats are dismal. (I don’t [...]
Google: ‘Did you mean “American Ingenuity”?’
Okay, this just takes the cake. Search for [African Ingenuity] in Google, and see what it suggests instead. BoingBoing calls it “biased and unfortunate“, while Google Blogoscoped says it’s a “strange” suggestion. Guess they haven’t heard of “Pinoy ingenuity”.
I won’t be using IE7 anytime soon
Well, I *did* try it once, but I got this:
Live Search is better than Google’s? Call me dogmatic, but I’ll place my bet on Google any day.
Less than a week after it’s release, a nasty vulnerability crops up:
So, no thanks, IE7: slick-UI-page-zooming-integrated-feed-reader-pluggable and all that jazz considered.
Lesser evil?
Joining the fray in the Google China censorship (soon-to-be?) debacle.
I’d like to put things in perspective, so a chronology is in order:
24 January 2005. Google agrees to censor sites that are objectionable to the Chinese government, puts up a Chinese domain, Google.cn.
Google draws the ire of the community for its “Great (fire)wall of China” compromise, [...]
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