tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14517672738770872182012-02-15T23:16:41.132-08:00A mashup of the Google ajax web search and Websnapr....Mark Pryce-Mahernoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451767273877087218.post-5258423622760676242007-08-13T05:33:00.000-07:002007-08-13T05:34:26.217-07:00Okay, so not a catchy title, but a fairly descriptive one...<br /><br />I've been toying around with some ideas on how to improve search engine results. I really like the way the image search on search.live.com brings back results. If this idea could be shared with the way web pages are displayed, then it would be a really cool web search...<br /><br />So I spent a while looking at all the components needed...<br /><br /> 1) a web spider (to index all the pages)<br /> 2) imaging software to screen shot the web pages<br /> 3) a cool web interface to view the results.<br /> 4) somewhere to host the software.<br /><br />I wrote a very basic (but working) c# demo, but (free) hosting is the problem.<br /><br />So I started from scratch; is it possible to do all the above, but only write a few lines of code and have it hosted???....<br /><br />The answer is yes, but just like every compromise, there are limitations...<br /><br />Lets start again, but pick up free or existing software...<br /><br />1) use google's <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/web.html">search API </a>, its free and I wont say easy, but not impossible to use.<br />2) <a href="websnapr">websnapr</a> offer a free service of imaging web pages..<br />3) hmmmm this is an area of limitation...<br />4) erm, lets see if we can use <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">blogger...</a><br /><br />The result is this.... <a href="http://googlesearchwithimages.blogspot.com/">Google Search with Images</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1451767273877087218-525842362276067624?l=googlesearchwithimages.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mark Pryce-Mahernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451767273877087218.post-1630865960523214042007-06-30T03:15:00.000-07:002007-06-30T03:16:42.345-07:00I'm playing around with the layout, so if it looks a bit strange, 'bare' with me.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1451767273877087218-163086596052321404?l=googlesearchwithimages.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mark Pryce-Mahernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451767273877087218.post-5078137204436183012007-06-28T09:02:00.000-07:002007-06-29T05:33:08.146-07:00I've released an inital beta version. Like all beta versions, there are a number of issues;<br /> a) only 8 results are returned from the google search api, I'm looking into extending this.<br /> b) the return results could be formatted a little nicer.<br /><br />Feed free to post feedback.<br /><br />Mark<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1451767273877087218-507813720443618301?l=googlesearchwithimages.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mark Pryce-Mahernoreply@blogger.com0