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Best Wishes!

for someone (like me) using Yahoo's web search api (which is far better than Google's imho), it would be ideal if you left Yahoo's crawler to do it's job here.

This question has been on my mind for while.Hope to hear some great responses.

Well, I have developed something similar (all your history is stored in a Database in YOUR sever). It is a free package.Check it out here: http://history.sansj.com

personalized search can be good (for both Google and you), but , involves some pretty serious privacy concerns. I would rather use something like this: http://history.sansj.com where all data stays in my server.

actually, I did find a few interesting solutions and I have implemented it. Check the site now: http://www.trk7.com/install/xxx.php?sstring=what+makes+a+sen...

I am thinking about it. I have used websnapr before to get screenshots of webpages but, the quality of the images is not great. Anyone else aware of a solution that is free and better than websnapr?

I need people to test a new app that I have created: 'History!'. History! is a personal web history manager. It allows you to save, bookmark and tag the page that you are currently reading and gives you the ability to locate the page at later stage. Requirements: Firefox (with JS enabled), Web Server running MySQL and PHP. A Firefox toolbar is created during installation and that is when the fun starts. You can view a demo here: http://www.trk7.com/install/xxx.php?sstring=what+makes+a+sen...

I think it is much more flexible and powerful than other web history managers and the best thing is that all data gets stored in your server (absolute PRIVACY)!

I have tested the app in Firefox (2&3) in Mac and I am pretty sure it will work fine in Win Environment.So please check it out.

Well it is not easy to penetrate established markets. Even Google will have trouble drawing away traffic from Naver in South Korea. One thing that I am experimenting with is porting popular web-apps in the developed world to the developing world and that has been working well for me so far.

after having trouble integrating Disqus with sansj, I started using http://js-kit.com/comments/?wow and they claim that search engines index the comments on your site.

If you use Entourage on a mac then, this script will be helpful: http://scriptbuilders.net/files/sendcomplexhtmlwithinlinefil... I have used it and it works wonderfully well.

demo here: http://play.trk7.com/ip.php

right, http://books.google.com/books?id=6TfTS9ITW7UC&printsec=f...

As an Indian , I find it offensive that an Indian Businessman chooses to blatantly display his wealth by building a 1 Billion Dollar Home for a family of 6.With 2.7 billion living on less than $2 a day, I am hoping guys like him pull their heads out of their asses and start thinking about spreading their wealth, instead of, spending it on enormously useless structures!

The best way to learn, in my opinion, is by learning through examples. Usynk allows you to submit and view; examples, demos and codes created by the best. And in true Web2.0 fashion, Usync allows you to vote on the best example.

Also, learning occurs in a series of steps, so, at Usynk, we start with the basic examples and move on to the more advanced ones as time passes by. Users decide what set of examples are relevant/informative for that particular step and users also decide when we are ready to move to the next step. The ones with maximum votes are selected as winner for that particular step.

What could be a better place than Hacker News to announce the site.Please contribute your code (which you agree to give away for free) and a demo.

looks fine in IE7 to me.

A search for "facebook" does not yield any voted results, because, the only person who searched for facebook, failed to vote! anyway the query itself does not clearly indicate the intention of the user imho. The last time I checked the site in IE, it seemed fine, I will test the site again in IE when I am at work. BTW, what version of IE are you using?

I have created a plugin, that can be used for searching ycombinator.It is available here: http://trk7.com/yc, on just needs to click on it to install in FF and IE7.

Smultron.

No, the search problem is not solved. When I look at the referrer logs of my site, I find people coming from as high as the 100th search result page of Google. My experience with searching on the Internet also leads me to believe that search needs to get better and better. A lot of very interesting things are happening in the search field; vertical, social, etc.. But, I will have to agreed that the major Search Engines are extremely good at the present moment. I use Yahoos Search API on my site, and am happy to fiddle around with their API's rather than build my own crawler (although I have real people adding links).

in the Cloud!

LAMP bundle.

The answer to your questions are available in these articles: http://searchengineland.com/070403-040029.php http://www.interactivedaily.com/2007/02/20/social-search-engine-startup-idea/ and to a lesser extent here: http://www.trk7.com/blog/sansj/a-democratic-approach-to-internet-search/

thanks bro! will consider your suggestion.

Carnivals...the last thing on my mind while coding the site ;)...I personally, got used to the colors and kinda started liking it.The color and style could be changed with little effort and it will.What is interesting about the site is, I have been noticing some traffic from Google and most of the results are in the front page. eg:(look for trk7.com/ask/) http://www.google.com/search?q=online+quick+and+easy+image+resizer&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=dialup+troubleshoot&hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&start=30&sa=N

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=lucene+with+php&btnG=Search

Although, not ground-breaking, if used correctly, this kind of search site can actually enhance search results in Search Engines like Google.

I have added your CSS fix, thanks for your tip. I would have to do some changes to the results Slider and the overall results display. SansJ: Sans-Junk (that's the idea :)) Most of the search results come from a search API (that's why the index is pretty decent), did not think of adding US until you mentioned it! You are right about "Voted Results" getting better as more people start using the site.I intentionally decided not to tweak the search algorithm as that would be contrary to the idea of Social Search in my view. I did to try to experiment on this page :http://trk7.com/ask/mysearch3.php?sstring=blog+hosting&submit=&co=all , check it out, one can move the slider to left to display less reults that are more relevant.

wow...that was a quick response, thanks. You are right about the different styling of the "about" page, this page is utilising TigerWiki and I didn't bother to modify it's style.As that page was mainly for informational purposes, I decided to deal with it later

I might have to clarify some of your observations:

One is automatically logged in as 'Blogger', to test the site out before deciding to signup.Once I have a few active users I am going to disable the 'Blogger' account. "World/DE/FR/UK" should work now (turned out to be a cache problem, thanks for pointing out!) I will have to modify the Sliding display a bit soon. As for as your ending question goes, I built SansJ mainly for personal use. Basically, I built something that I wanted to use as there was nothing exactly similar to SansJ.Thanks to your comments, it is going to be better.

I am submitting my site again for your review/comments, as a lot of work has been done on the site since the last time I submitted the link to my site and I thought it deserved to be mentioned here again.