PHPDN Unified Search Engine!!!

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The U.S.E. is...

too cool for words.
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a pile of doggie do-do.
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PHPDN Unified Search Engine!!!

Post by jason »

Okay, this is really cool. It's in it's final Beta release.

http://use.devnetwork.net/

Check it out. As you can see, I went with the Googlish type style of search engine that we are all fond of. I am going to work up a couple more logos, and if anyone else has any suggestions, throw them our way.

Right now, the USE searches PHPDeveloper.org, PHPComplete.com, these forums, and EvilWalrus.com. More sites to come soon.

I also plan on adding the PHP Manual, MySQL manual, and whatever else we think is just plain "kewl".

Have fun.
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Post by mydimension »

pardon me as i drool over teh potential for this thing. we will finally be able to pool all these resources into one GREAT collective resource.

One network to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. <-- catchy eh?
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Post by jason »

Great...so does that mean some short guy named Frodo is going to throw my engagement ring for Piera into some fiery pit of doom? That would <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> me off.

Hehe, but yeah, as far as potential is concerned, its pretty cool stuff.
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Post by phice »

Very very nice :D

A few suggestions
  • Use verdana as the font :P
    Limit the querys back, by using Next/Prev links
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Post by jason »

Switched over to verdana....I will work on the Next/Previous stuff tomorrow.
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Post by hob_goblin »

ooooh, jason, i like how you made sure it searched only forum MESSAGES, i queried "hob_goblin" and it only turned up people who posted my name, not every post by me...

very very very nice.
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Post by phice »

Possibly change the font size, as well? :P
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Post by Coco »

ya you should have that url in a 'before you post a newbie question search here' thread

i for one plan to use it to try reduce the number of stupid questions i get
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Post by EvilWalrus »

Sorry.. moved the topic to the appropriate forum.. also, *note to Jason*...
change the feed url to http://feeds.evilwalrus.com/services/se ... _keywords=

I'm organizing the site quite a bit to make it more accessible and easier to use with teh new features coming....

danke.. :D
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Post by volka »

finally I can stop thinking, can sell what's left of my brain and use U.S.E. :D

And the font size of the results is appropriate, I can read it even if I lie idle in bed :D

what about a voting system ('10 users voted this thread as import.....'), did something like this ever worked out?
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Post by enygma »

since the results are dynamic and are pulled from each site, the concept of ranking them would be quite difficult indeed....
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Post by jason »

okay, so it's been updated a bit, what do you guys think?
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Post by enygma »

i think it still shows HTML/converted HTML funny ;)
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Post by phice »

The underlined color under each section should be changed to the color of the tab. :P
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Post by EvilWalrus »

Note to Jason:

http://use.evilwalrus.com

I update the query to accept 'news:(.*)' as an argument and it searches the corresponding arg...

All the below are valid searches:

news:
tutorial:
code:
forum:

if ya need the source, email me...
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