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Posts Tagged ‘search’

Google SSL search plugin

Posted in Play on 16 June 2010 | Comments?
Tags: firefox, google, search, xml

I added Google SSL to my search plugins in Firefox. The XML file is below: <opensearchdescription xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/" xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"> <shortname>Google SSL</shortname> <description>Google SSL</description> <inputencoding>UTF-8</inputencoding> <image width="16" height="16">data:image/png;base64,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</image> <url type="text/html" method="GET" template="https://www.google.com/search"> <param name="hl" value="en"/> <param name="source" value="hp"/> <param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/> <param name="btnG" value="Google+Search"/> </url> <moz :SearchForm>https://www.google.com/</moz> </opensearchdescription> I’ll host it later for a one-click install. Update: [...]

Creating a Firefox search plugin

Posted in Play on 17 May 2009 | 1 comment
Tags: firefox, search, wolframalpha, xml

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 [...]

Coredump in Google search hits

Posted in Play on 16 March 2007 | Comments?
Tags: google, search, stats

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 [...]

Google: ‘Did you mean “American Ingenuity”?’

Posted in In-between on 25 January 2007 | Comments?
Tags: google, pinoy, search

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

Posted in Play on 20 October 2006 | Comments?
Tags: google, microsoft, search, web

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.