Comments on: PyAWS, Fermat’s Last Theorem, and search diversity http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/25/pyaws-fermats-last-theorem-and-search-diversity/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robert Connor http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/25/pyaws-fermats-last-theorem-and-search-diversity/#comment-127689 Tue, 26 May 2009 23:28:32 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=775#comment-127689 I think there is an issue with doublesearch right now. Live.com is requiring me to prove I am not a machine running some sort of DoS attack. I have to play the enter the characters game. Live.com works if I got straight there, so I think the issue is how it sees searches from DS.

]]> By: Chris Camp http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/25/pyaws-fermats-last-theorem-and-search-diversity/#comment-125719 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:20:30 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=775#comment-125719 I love the doublesearch – I wrote on something similar a while back and called it Mihooglia (http://opoli.org/?p=53). I realized I’d gotten to a place of psychological lock-in with Google, a standing assumption that G was better in every circumstance but I lacked the tools to make an objective and inexpensive comparison of search results.
Anyway – I’m jumping into DS now.

Many thanks,
-cc

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/25/pyaws-fermats-last-theorem-and-search-diversity/#comment-125718 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:16:01 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=775#comment-125718 > code searches or music searches are
> specialized

Likewise searching for faces in images. But again my point is: If you can conveniently consult diverse sources, why wouldn’t you? So for example:

http://jonudell.net/facesearch.html

]]> By: Michele Costabile http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/25/pyaws-fermats-last-theorem-and-search-diversity/#comment-125717 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:20:21 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=775#comment-125717 I have in fact found Live Search usefully different in some cases, for example I have recommended it to my children for searching images and for some searches, but I found that they seem to prefer Google.
I also enjoy a9.com for music related searches.
To be fair Google is a lot of search engines glued together and result streams are mixed sometimes usefully, for example code searches or music searches are specialized.

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/25/pyaws-fermats-last-theorem-and-search-diversity/#comment-125713 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:32:25 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=775#comment-125713 Ah, the old “this XML is too hard to parse correctly, and too easy to parse with regex” style; I recognize that approach.

I suspect that this reduces to three lines of shell script with curl and grep and sed, but the margins are too narrow to include the code. (I’ll post it somewhere if I can get it down to that.)

]]> By: Phil http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/25/pyaws-fermats-last-theorem-and-search-diversity/#comment-125709 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:22:50 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=775#comment-125709 I’ve written a minimal implementation of this as a runnable script and posted it as on my website:

http://www.hollenback.net/index.php/AmazonWishListTextBackup

I was going to just paste the script here but I suspect that WordPress will mangle it.

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