Fetching Search Results as Serialized Arrays with Yahoo Web Services and PHP 5
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Google Considers Adding User Voting To Search
Thursday, November 29th, 2007There was a time when seemingly everyone was adding Digg-like voting to some of their products and services: Dell, Yahoo, Microsoft. Now, a bit late to the game, Google follows suit by adding user voting to their search results. The feature is currently in experimental phase and it may not ...
PeekYou Makes People Search Worthwhile with Google Integration
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007People search engine PeekYou had launched a new interface that combines Google search results with listings from its directory of people. For example, a search for “Mashable” will return a link to our blog, and on the left include a picture and link to the PeekYou profile of Pete ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social Search
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Despite the never-ending barrage of Google news and the dominant market share of the top four search engines, dozens of startups think they can do a better job at helping you query the Web. In fact, we rounded up a list of more than 40 of them a few ...
Can Yahoo Structured Search Beat Google?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007In an effort to stand out (and then beat) Google, Yahoo may soon be rolling out a structured search for particular keywords, which would give a more informative set of results than just links to websites containing relevant information. While very few details have been released about this ...
Dabble Selling Video Search Data, for Marketing?
Monday, November 26th, 2007Video search engine tool Dabble has indicated its plans for the expanded use of all the metadata it collects. As far as market research goes, that looks to be the precise direction in which Dabble is moving, with the use of its people-powered search tools being applied to ...
Google Custom Search is Getting Very Fluent
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007More international product launches for Google today, with the first announcement being in regards to the UK launch of video ad units. Custom Search Engines are now available in 40 languages, covering about 80 countries around the world. In its effort to continue to engage developers and web ...
Google Notebook Could Weigh on Search Rankings
Monday, November 19th, 2007Google has filed three new patents for its Notebook Service, and by glancing over excerpts that have been published online here, it’s clear that Google is planning on furthered integration of Notebook content for search results. The question is: will this become a factor for determining Google’s search engine ...
Retrevo Launches Consumer Electronics Search Tool
Monday, November 19th, 2007Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Retrevo has just launched what it likes to call “the lazy mans guide to shopping.” The site pulls together information on consumer electronics products from thousands of different web sites to try and offer users a comprehensive guide to buying things ...
Google Adds Picasa Images to Search
Saturday, November 17th, 2007Finally, Google has integrated Picasa Web Albums into Google Image Search. Public albums can be enabled for a public search option, meaning your images will be more likely to come up in Google image results. And that’s a huge improvement, because previously images on Picasa (and Blogger, and ...
Completing a Search Engine with MySQL and PHP 5
Monday, August 13th, 2007Building database-driven web sites is one of the most popular trends today in web site development. However this approach implies that potential visitors must be provided with a straightforward mechanism that allows them to search through web site content. This three-part series walks you through the process of building ...
Paginating Result Sets for a Search Engine Built with MySQL and PHP 5
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007If you re a PHP developer looking for an approachable guide on how to build an expandable search engine with MySQL and PHP 5 then this series of articles might be quite useful to you. Welcome to the second installment of the series that began with Building a ...
Building a Search Engine with MySQL and PHP 5
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007If you maintain a medium-sized growing web site you might find that it needs an internal proprietary search engine to improve your visitors experience. This article the first of three parts will get you started with building such an engine using PHP and MySQL.... Refurbished and ...
Google Code Search for Security Vulnerabilities
Friday, October 6th, 2006Stephen de Vries sent an email to SecurityFocus's web application security mailing list earlier today to comment on the new Google Code Search: Google's code search provides an easy way to find obvious software flaws in open source and example applica...
Creating a Searchable Inventory System: Retrieving and Managing Search Results (continued)
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005In this article we will set up an automatic search listener to execute the code for our searchable inventory system. With this final piece we will assemble all of the parts of our application into a working search tool. It will allow us to search for records using ...
Creating a Searchable Inventory System: Retrieving and Managing Search Results
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005In this third article in our series we will look at the type of functions for which we need to use our search information then take a look at retrieving records based on various search criteria.... (Advertisement) Worksoft. No scripting. No coding. No kidding. Never rely on manual software ...
