Dir23.com - My New Search Aggregator
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I went off on a tangent last night and built this. It only took a few hours.
When you enter a term and hit go, it preloads all of the search engine links for you so you can click them and have the results open in the frame.
Please give me any comments, suggestions, new categories or new sites that Dir23 needs in the comments and have fun!
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Pretty neat Stephan. I’m impressed I wish I had the knowledge to create useful tools like that. Have a fantastic New Year.
Stephan…
Right now it seems the left bar is coming back with a 404.
Let me know if you need more detail. I’m using firefox on xp.
Bruce
I miscalculated the amount of stress using MySql to store search urls would put on the server. Now it is hard-coded javascript so it puts the stress on the browser side. Hopefully this one stays up. It’s working now, but I won’t be able to add to it until the weekend.
I want to create a script that will spit out opml files for the search queries next. Since a lot of the search engines will have feeds for their search results, I can wrap these up in an OPML that can be imported into a feed reader for listening.
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Wow! That is really cool. Do you care to explain how you built it? It looks like a very useful tool for searchers. I am going to stumble and bookmark it in a minute.
The second version that is up is basically open because it is written in Javacript. It’s rather simple. Go to each of the search engines perform a search that includes a space. You need the space because you need to know what each engine uses as a delimiter (%20,%2B,+,_). Once I had that, I built the site to grab the query, insert it into the search urls and then replace the spaces with each engines delimiter.
But I had a trick, an unconventional one. I store the urls in a Filemaker database and use calculated fields to create the javacript on the fly as I add new engines. Then I export the javacript for the site.
The initial version used a mysql database for the sites and php to serve the results. That added unnecessary work for my server when all I used the database for was convenient storage for the data.
woww.. i wish i could build some stuff like that @-). its going to be useful to find any information
I plan on expanding it as I use it. Still coming up with ideas.
Hi Stephan. I also wish I already knew how to build things but don’t want to take the time to learn. How does this benefit you? How does using it an improvement over not using it?
It saves time. Google doesn’t provide everything. If I have written a post about “twitter”, I can find other targeted conversations that I can join and perhaps bring a few people back here to read my post. It beats going to each search engine separately.
Hi Stephan, I’m curious are you using optimal OPML script on this and if you do , how bad is it on server resources?
I’m looking into using it to display rss feeds from many of my blogs and sites but I’m on a shared server with Dreamhost and just want to make sure it will not overload server. I have been using Rss2Html and SimplePie but am always looking for ways to lighten up the loads on server.
If anyone else knows any details about the “lightest” rss script, please post.
Oh and I think Dir23 is very cool, I’ll be using it.
Thanks
I am using javascript on Dir23.com now. It uses all client side resources taking the load off of my server. As far as serving actual feeds the same way, I have been looking at Flash and someone had suggested Silverlight to me.
This is a great idea! I wish I had the coding knowledge to make something like this but I do not. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.
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