hornbaker

So that's how it starts.

Vintage 60 Minutes TV coverage of TIGoT (12 min): https://youtu.be/ieb1lmm9xHk

BearBleed.

Well, to be fair, you f*cked that one goat multiple times. ;)

I went with one not on your list - nvALT, backed by an encrypted Dropbox store. Love the minimal UI.

http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

"We are having database or network issues on Stack Overflow - investigating now." - https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/823948599994253313

So lame.

Happiness is wanting what you have, not having what you want.

Done, and thank you for sharing your experiences and insights! https://bladesearch.com

ps. If you could share how you did your agent locator by zipcode, I'd be really interested to hear about it. hello at above domain.

Just wanted to update you guys that I took everyone's good advice, and changed the name of this project to https://bladesearch.com.

I'm sorry for any confusion I may have caused in making you think it was a service of Google's. I viewed it as a tribute to one of my favorite services of theirs (custom search engines) and let that cloud my legal perspective.

Anyway, I didn't hear from Google, but also didn't want them to have to engage their legal team, so I went ahead and rebranded today.

Lesson learned, and thanks again everyone for the great feedback yesterday.

To search on a blade, visit the blade page, like this Hacker News Search blade:

https://hn.bladesearch.com

then type your query into the field that says "Search this blade..." and click the blue search button.

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Thanks. :)

Just wanted to update you guys that I took everyone's good advice, and changed the name of this project to https://bladesearch.com.

I'm sorry for any confusion I may have caused in making you think it was a service of Google's. I viewed it as a tribute to one of my favorite services of theirs (custom search engines) and let that cloud my legal perspective.

Anyway, I didn't hear from Google, but also didn't want them to have to engage their legal team, so I went ahead and rebranded today.

Lesson learned, and thanks again everyone for the great feedback yesterday.

Just wanted to update you guys that I took everyone's good advice, and changed the name of this project from GoogleBlade.com to BladeSearch.com.

I'm sorry for any confusion I may have caused in making you think it was a service of Google's. I viewed it as a tribute to one of my favorite services of theirs (custom search engines) and let that cloud my legal perspective.

Anyway, I didn't hear from Google, but also didn't want them to have to engage their legal team, so I went ahead and rebranded today.

Lesson learned, and thanks again everyone for the great feedback yesterday.

Thanks! Just pushed a fix for that.

I like this one by PeteD - it searches 12 different bike part websites at once:

https://bikeparts.googleblade.com/bikeparts/brooks%20saddle

You make good points, and I appreciate your point of view.

Thanks for the headsup, and I'm glad a friendly person took them. :)

I'll happily change the name if Google asks me to, no C&D necessary.

But I don't think the law (or large company reaction) is cut and dried in cases like this. See 9to5Google, AppleInsider, etc.

GoogleBlade.com is a tribute site, featuring only an existing product of Google (CSEs), and trying to make them better and more discoverable.

Here is the default url of a Google CSE:

https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=01056188319074391687...

and here is a Google Blade:

https://linkedin.googleblade.com

Google has paid so little love to this product that CSEs are still displaying their old logo in the search box, and there is no central hub where you can discover great CSEs.

I was thrilled when Google released CSEs back in 2006, and I've used them ever since. I hate to see them neglected and hard to discover, though, and most people I talk to have never heard about them.

Google Blade is my attempt to shine some light, and love, on them. If Google wants any changes made, I'll comply asap.

Well, yes, if you don't mind typing or pasting the same combo of 20-30 different search operators in Google.com, it can be done there.

But there are some other subtle differences: you get thumbnail images with search results (if available) with Blades, and you don't get a captcha to prove you're human if your search volume or rate is out of bounds on a Blade. (These are features of CSEs, not something I've hacked.)

I saw that, lol. You went all Inception on it.

Although this works, too: https://googleblade.com/blades/search/ruby

Tons of results for me: https://hn.googleblade.com/hn/ai

It can do something as simple as a site: search on Google, but you can string configs together to join up 20-30 sites together, create tabs to split out by sentiment, split out by number or dollar ranges, etc. etc. I have barely scratched the surface with the Blades there now, hoping to see some creative ones surface.

Thanks daveguy. I miss the good ol' days of the internet when stuff like this wasn't even a concern. :/

If you're wondering what kind of traffic #25 on the front page brings in:

https://twitter.com/GoogleBlade/status/811681152046141441

About 1,000 uniques so far, 20 signups.

Relevant: http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/24/11111000/google-says-9to5g...

(note the update)

Thanks, might need it. :) I've got a couple others on standby, but I really hope the big G is cool about this.

I took a look at your Blade config... you shouldn't need the http or https in there at all. Test on google first, like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afindlectures.com%2F*

You've got 70 pages indexed there, so you should see some results once you make a search.

Update: 39 results now for searching "a" at https://lectures.googleblade.com/

It pretty much is - it's built on Google Custom Search Engines (https://cse.google.com), which have been around since 2006 but never seen a lot of promotion from Google.

I'm trying to bring attention to them, and make them more discoverable. If Google wants me to change the name, I will - but it's a tribute project.

I understand that risk, and will comply with Google's wishes. As the project is completely focused on Google's CSE, and serves only to draw attention to them, I do hope they give me a pass. Technically, it's not unheard of... for example, AppleInsider.com is not an Apple property.

Just a little side project here, something I always wanted to build because I get tired of typing stuff like site:whatever.com and intitle:something when doing power searches on Google. Happy to answer questions.