Category Archives: Search

When I reworked my site last week I was unhappy with the persistent search features of Feedster and I could not get the results I was after using Technorati. Feedster did not have a full index of my site. Technorati accepts URL or keyword, but not both. So I created my own solution. Using Movable Type’s search template I crafted a RSS 2.0 file as my search result. It validates, but is served as text/html. If you would like to subscribe to any search result on my weblog you may edit this link, replacing *term* with the search term of…

In an interview with the Guardian, Ashley Highfield of the BBC mentions their new push into search as alternative to U.S. based companies such as Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. “[A]s the market came to be dominated by US sites – the most popular of which is Google – there was value in investing licence fee payers’ money in a UK-centric search engine.” The BBC’s current search offering uses Inktomi but optimizes results for a UK audience….

John Gruber of Daring Fireball takes a closer look at Spotlight and Dominic Giampaolo’s modifications to HFS+ which enable the rich desktop search. Some interesting issues. [T]he new Tiger version of Mail stores each message as a separate file that allows Spotlight to effectively return individual mail messages as search results. No other major mail client uses a one-message-per-file storage format. Importers are fired on every file the moment it is created, saved, changed, or moved, including when files are made available through a newly mounted drive….