{"id":795,"date":"2006-08-10T21:59:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T04:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/wp\/2006\/08\/10\/795\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T04:53:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T11:53:07","slug":"randomness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/10\/795\/","title":{"rendered":"randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>work seems to be keeping me rather busy<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I got around to fixing a several-month-old bug with my University of Waterloo search engine. Turns out the problem was Yahoo having changed their query parser. The query I was sending used to be<\/p>\n<pre>search terms (site:example.com OR site:example2.com OR ... site:exampleN.com)<\/pre>\n<p>however example.com wasn&#8217;t showing up on the results&#8230; the fix was adding a space before the ending parentheses.<\/p>\n<pre>search terms (site:example.com OR site:example2.com OR ... site:exampleN.com )<\/pre>\n<p>I wish Yahoo would publicly document all of their advanced search syntax, including the maximum query length.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to do another OpenSearch Update post. I&#8217;ve recently started adding <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/mfagan\/opensearch\">some of these to del.icio.us<\/a>. Noticing lots of non-English blog posts on OpenSearch lately, which is very cool. Today someone asked about <a href=\"http:\/\/opensearch.org\/pipermail\/discuss\/2006-August\/000048.html\">including thumbnails<\/a>. I&#8217;ve replied suggesting <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/mrss\">Media RSS<\/a> but asking for consensus (although my email still needs to be moderated).<\/p>\n<p>Lots of neat stuff in the mapping space lately. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/brainoff.com\/weblog\/\">Mikel Maron<\/a>, Virtual Earth <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualearth.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!3554.entry\">now has georss feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So for years I&#8217;ve been largely ignoring the social networking websites. Or to be more accurate, reading up on them a lot, but not actually using them. Among other things, I don&#8217;t want to waste my time, nor provide a lot of my personal data to some walled garden. Regarding the latter, <a href=\"http:\/\/peopleaggregator.org\/web\/\">PeopleAggregator<\/a> has been out for a while, and I hadn&#8217;t gotten around to congradulating <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.broadbandmechanics.com\">Marc<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myelin.co.nz\/post\/\">Phillip<\/a>. Anyhow, Facebook came to my school (this year I believe) and I&#8217;ve found that I&#8217;m actually using it. Not much, but more than I&#8217;ve ever used another similar site. Unlike the first generation of these websites, it actually has a point to it. I&#8217;m still resisting uploading photos to it (if I annotate those photos, am I ever going to be able to export that? highly unlikely) and I don&#8217;t like using it for messaging, because it won&#8217;t be searchable and integrated with my email or instant messaging services. Amusingly enough, I do think Facebook will actually succeed in making money. Hmn.. I guess I don&#8217;t have any major point to make here..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>work seems to be keeping me rather busy Yesterday I got around to fixing a several-month-old bug with my University of Waterloo search engine. Turns out the problem was Yahoo having changed their query parser. 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