Who is inventing this things? For years we have this already, don't we? It is just called ad banners. ;-) The idea and message is there. You like this page/article/service? Then just click some random banner to say "Thank you!". Simple and doesn't cost anything to the users. :-)
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So we have an SSL version of a quite decent search engine. This should, besides the client-server encryption which is obvious, also hide a referrer. I've tested it right away:
click from http://www.google.cz/
192.168.240.133 - - [25/May/2010:09:11:42 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 41844 "http://www.google.cz/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=16&ved=0CFUQFjAP&url=http%3A%2F%2Fkutej.net%2F&rct=j&q=kutej&ei=iHj7S436JsGtOMfE5P8B&usg=AFQjCNEIRhHXy7b_DsiM6c28l0wx3vOcVg&sig2=_cYOxkj7loeHmqhdNH6cUA" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100501 Iceweasel/3.5.9 (like Firefox/3.5.9)"
click from https://www.google.com/
192.168.240.133 - - [25/May/2010:09:12:21 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 41844 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100501 Iceweasel/3.5.9 (like Firefox/3.5.9)"
"http://www.google.cz/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=16&ved=0CFUQFjAP&url=http%3A%2F%2Fkutej.net%2F&rct=j&q=kutej&ei=iHj7S436JsGtOMfE5P8B&usg=AFQjCNEIRhHXy7b_DsiM6c28l0wx3vOcVg&sig2=_cYOxkj7loeHmqhdNH6cUA"
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So when hiding, use SSL! :-)
Another headache for webmasters, where are all this people coming from?
This was an old idea and I finally found enough toits to finish it. Basically besides normal key words searching, one can use a tag cloud to help find alternatives. Here are some examples:
By clicking on any of the links in the cloud the keyword/tag is added to the search string. On the top there are "+" and "-" that can be selected before selecting a tag. The selected "+" or "-" will be added in front of the keyword to force inclusion of exclusion of a keyword in the search result documents.
Only time and some usage will tell if it will be useful or not. Let's see.
So I've decided to give the twitter a try.
(huh, that was short. I'm probably getting adapted to 140chars...)
Why not? Because the world is not black and white and because we don't speak only one language. And because it is fun.
Since a while I was thinking about a way how to support pages written in my mother language - Slovak. As I'm an IT, 95% of information that I need to read and lookup is written in English. Now my concern was what if anyone writes a really good article in Slovak I'll most likely never find out through the search.
Now I've put things to a test on search.meonl.com. How it works? The search terms are written in one language (English for the moment) and in each column, besides a search engine type, a language can be chosen, and whenever the search term is submitted it is automatically translated, using google translate, to the other language(s). While Google Translate will be never perfect, for basic translation of search keywords works quite fine. In worst case user can rephrase and resubmit.
Only the usage can tell if it will be useful or not as not everyone has a wide screen and not every one can cope with stereo information. Me too likes the clean and plain look of Google search engine, but...
A simple showcases:
For now there is only one localization and that is Slovak, but if I mange to find someone willing to translate the about page and few tooltip keywords there can be also any other (Google Translate supported) language as a primary search language.
Have fun!
The Firefox Addon was just approved - 59864
Of course someone else already did it, what were you expecting Jozef? Well the same thing and I knew it (just read on), but it took some time to find it.
What I'm talking about? Quintura a search engine based on tag cloud. I've seen this kid of searching before in Open Clip Art so I was really not expecting to come up with something new at all, sorry, next time I'll fail again, don't worry. ;-) The idea is really nice. Using tag cloud to hint search directions - positive and also negative keywords. Cool!
Anything else? Yes! Besides some more exercise with JQuery my little project opened my eyes. I've started to look for some more search engines. Out of my mind I knew just couple of them ~10. So I went to wikipedia search engines which lists couple more and finally to wikipedia list of search engines.
And? Google, Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia. This guy has really limited view of the topic! Exactly... So I looked a little deeper and found the top 100 list. 100? Sounds awful. Well according to GoshMe there are more than half a million search engines out there on the Internet. Believe or not let's not count them by hand.
And finally I found this - Segev, Elad (2008). "Search engines and power: A politics of online (mis-) information." Webology, 5(2), Article 54. Available at: http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n2/a54.html. If you are not fan of reading long articles here are some citations from it to support the motivation:
One other information caught my attention - Quaero a build in progress that got couple M€. According to the page 298, according to the wikipedia 99 from FR government (which is not listed on the official page at all). One million more or less ;-) definitely it is interesting budget.
And the takeovers? There Is More Than One Way To Do It. There Is More Than One View Of The World. And that the pages one visits are shaping an reshaping the personal world and opinions. Obvious? Yes, now yes for me. :-)
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Talk:Meonl.com
I was inspired by other similar pages that already are in wikipedia and linked from Search_engines - Blackle.com, Sperse!_Search, Info.com, etc. If you remove Meonl.com that please give some reasons why wikipedia keeps the other ones.
Jozef.kutej (talk) 11:43, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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The article:
| URL | http://meonl.com/ |
|---|---|
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Search engine |
| Registration | No |
| Available language(s) | English, |
| Created by | Jozef Kutej |
| Launched | January 2010 |
| Current status | Active |
Meonl is a website powered by any search engine that allows to be run in HTML_element#Frames. Having one input box to do a search on couple of search engines allows to compare the results very easily.
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History
Created as new year 2010 free time JQuery excercise.
Concept
Idea is to make use of wide screens to display more than one search engine at a time side by side. While there are just a couple of major search engines there are a lot of local ones that the users will simply not even try. Having split screen leaves the favourite search engine and shows also the results from an alternative one.
The concept of split screen is also a test how the internet users would like the idea of having a lot of information on one screen. If it proves to be useful than the webmasters should start to think of optimizing not only for low screen resolutions but also for high screen resolutions.
Examination
As there is rarely one truth answer. There is never one truth search results. Having results from two different companies (that have different people, different culture and different indexes) gives interesting results.
Usage
http://search.meonl.com/en/ url accepts two parameters. "s" and "q". Using "s" a list of desired search engine columns can be set. Using "q" the search query is set.
Examples
External links
Google vs Cuil vs Yahoo vs ...
Wide screen offers a lot of horizontal space so why not to use it and search with two (or more) search engines at the same time? Try search.meonl.com (about).
Where is the Perl there? There in the back. In the name of static can be more the meonl.com files are pure HTML+CSS+JS generated using Template Toolkit ttree and some Makefile rules.
The search.meonl.com page is basically an input box and 1 or more iframes with search engines. Submitting a text in the input box results in reloading search engines with a search url.
Why was the search.meonl.com created? I got an idea how to do the web searches a little different way. But then I've realized - who the hell will try just another search engine??? Well no one of course :-), but if there will be a way to keep Google (or any other major search engine) next to the new one, may there will be a little chance... I will probably never have enough time, money, energy and the rest one needs to start and finish such a project, but at least now there is a way how to compare how good the current search engines are - side by side.
The few days that I'm playing and searching with multiple search engines at once made me realize that, yes - the search engines are different. And yes - the other (than Google in my case) search engines can give better results sometimes. :-)
I wrote recently about feedback.cgi on Bratislava Perl Mongers page. It turned out to be useful only to deliver more spam. Today I've replaced it with a JavaScript bookmarklet to the new evil thing from Google - Sidewiki. So everyone has still a chance to annotate the pages and I have one less thing to maintain. Win-Win.
Btw this is how one can get the sidewiki RSS feed url for http://bratislava.pm.org/ page:
perl -MURI::Escape -le 'print "http://www.google.com/sidewiki/feeds/entries/webpage/", uri_escape($ARGV[0]), "/default?includeLessUseful=true"' http://bratislava.pm.org/
