tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-120622512008-07-04T17:31:36.547+02:00Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-31137482939072729462008-07-04T17:29:00.001+02:002008-07-04T17:31:11.119+02:00Twingine is now back again after an extended downtime. I have moved, and the ISP spent longer time than expected hooking up the connection. Good thing is that it's a 25/5 Mbit fiber connection, so there should be no connectivity issues in the future.Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1156189189736109732006-08-21T21:24:00.000+02:002006-08-21T21:41:08.046+02:00<p>AOL has released search usage data for a selection of AOL users in the period between March 1st and May 31st, 2006. There has been some controversy regarding the insufficient anonymization of the search data, and some of the users have been identified from the data.</p> <p>The web site <a href="//aolstalker.com">aolstalker.com</a> gives a per-user view of the search data, in addition to the possibility to see who, if any, searched for a given term.</p> <p><a href="http://www.aolstalker.com/search.php?q=twingine">Searching for "twingine"</a> revealed that two of the AOL customers sampled in the data used Twingine in the time period of the sample.</p> <p><em>A note on privacy:</em> Twingine is run by an individual, not a business, on a personal computer in a private residence in a country with strong privacy laws (Norway). As such, the data is much more protected than if a corporation was responsible for the hosting or operation of the service. </p> <p>Yahoo! and Google have however been subjected to subpoenas in the past for search data. Google refused to comply.</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.eff.org/Privacy/AOL/">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> have more information on the AOL case.</p>Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1139342298516704542006-02-07T20:58:00.000+01:002006-02-07T21:08:29.980+01:00<p>At the same time I registered <a href="//twingine.com/">Twingine</a>, I also registered <a href="//jaguhugel.com/">Jaguhugel</a>, a similar-sounding site to Yagoohoogle (at least in Norwegian).</p> <p>It is currently serving around 500 searches a month, and I won't be renewing the domain when it expires on May 7th. If you like the domain you could either <a href="http://jaguhugel.com/donate.html">Donate $32.95</a> to keep it up another year, or <a href="//twingine.com/">start using Twingine</a> instead.</p> <p>I will renew the domain for as many years as I receive donations, and the donors will receive honorable mentions on the Jaguhugel front page!</p>Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1137489390058333392006-01-17T10:13:00.000+01:002006-01-24T23:07:25.183+01:00Paul Bausch's book <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/yahoohks/">Yahoo! Hacks</a> mentions Twingine in Hack #9. Take a look at <a href="http://www.cnet.com/4520-10165_1-6415447-1.html?tag=tnav">Yahoo hacks - Insider Secrets - CNET.com</a>, tip #3: <blockquote><p>Viewing both sets of results in different windows is a bit tedious, and a clever Norwegian developer named Asgeir S. Nilsen has made the task easier at a site called Twingine.</p> <p>The Twingine site contains a blank search form where you can type any search query. When you click Search, the site brings up the results pages for that query from both Yahoo and Google, side by side. For fairness, Twingine randomly changes the sides that Google and Yahoo come up on, so people who prefer one side of the screen over the other won't be biased.</p></blockquote>Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1126359569796615582005-09-10T15:27:00.000+02:002005-09-15T20:23:40.080+02:00I haven't come around to translating Twingine, but you can have Twingine use your localized versions of Yahoo and Google. To use this, you can use the url http://twingine.com/?CC where CC is your country code. I have tested it for <a href="http://twingine.com/?no">no</a>, <a href="http://twingine.com/?se">se</a>, <a href="http://twingine.com/?fi">fi</a>, <a href="http://twingine.com/?dk">dk</a>, <a href="http://twingine.com/?de">de</a>, <a href="http://twingine.com/?uk">uk</a>, and <a href="http://twingine.com/?in">in</a>, and they all work. Please comment if your particular country code does not work. Thanks to Jamie Chilvers for the suggestion. If you have a search box on your site, you need to add a hidden attribute like this: <pre>&lt;input type="hidden" name="lang" value="CC"/&gt;</pre>Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1121066173136459532005-07-11T10:06:00.000+02:002005-07-11T10:06:26.623+02:00The total number of queries were 1,570,923, with a peak on the 6th and 7th. The daily average number of queries were 52,321. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3774/155/1600/june051.jpg"><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3774/155/400/june051.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> <h2>Top 20 queries</h2><table><tr><td>559107</td><td>'250碼 漆彈'</td></tr><tr><td>10465</td><td>'failure'</td></tr><tr><td>9687</td><td>'@ms28.hinet.net'</td></tr><tr><td>2406</td><td>'yagoohoogle'</td></tr><tr><td>2081</td><td>'twingine'</td></tr><tr><td>2049</td><td>'sex'</td></tr><tr><td>1870</td><td>'google'</td></tr><tr><td>1671</td><td>'test'</td></tr><tr><td>1243</td><td>'yahoo'</td></tr><tr><td>747</td><td>'"play aware networks"'</td></tr><tr><td>699</td><td>'canrize'</td></tr><tr><td>655</td><td>'hello'</td></tr><tr><td>570</td><td>'academic google'</td></tr><tr><td>507</td><td>'สุนทรภู่'</td></tr><tr><td>491</td><td>'oneillgraphics'</td></tr><tr><td>491</td><td>'biomes blog'</td></tr><tr><td>464</td><td>'a'</td></tr><tr><td>457</td><td>'hi'</td></tr><tr><td>406</td><td>'grid computing'</td></tr><tr><td>403</td><td>'games'</td></tr></table> <h2>Top 20 netblocks</h2><table><tr><td>451584</td><td>61.62.0.0/16</td></tr><tr><td>351383</td><td>202.0.0.0/7</td></tr><tr><td>20358</td><td>212.138.47.0/24</td></tr><tr><td>12924</td><td>85.96.0.0/12</td></tr><tr><td>12114</td><td>200.128.0.0/9</td></tr><tr><td>9779</td><td>220.140.0.0/16</td></tr><tr><td>8514</td><td>66.0.0.0/8</td></tr><tr><td>7553</td><td>61.56.0.0/13</td></tr><tr><td>7495</td><td>203.200.0.0/16</td></tr><tr><td>6955</td><td>216.0.0.0/8</td></tr><tr><td>6635</td><td>212.138.64.0/22</td></tr><tr><td>6197</td><td>82.224.0.0/11</td></tr><tr><td>5283</td><td>198.0.0.0/8</td></tr><tr><td>4588</td><td>12.0.0.0/8</td></tr><tr><td>4487</td><td>61.90.0.0/15</td></tr><tr><td>4200</td><td>82.194.32.0/19</td></tr><tr><td>4114</td><td>81.192.0.0/16</td></tr><tr><td>3853</td><td>222.124.0.0/16</td></tr><tr><td>3788</td><td>203.199.0.0/16</td></tr><tr><td>3517</td><td>196.0.0.0/8</td></tr></table> <h2>Top 20 countries</h2>Since last month, Australia has beaten the U.S. for second position. <table><tr><td>488970</td><td>TW</td></tr><tr><td>362796</td><td>AU</td></tr><tr><td>191998</td><td>US</td></tr><tr><td>47967</td><td>IN</td></tr><tr><td>44004</td><td>TR</td></tr><tr><td>42789</td><td>FR</td></tr><tr><td>33101</td><td>SA</td></tr><tr><td>28602</td><td>TH</td></tr><tr><td>26274</td><td>IL</td></tr><tr><td>21554</td><td>JP</td></tr><tr><td>21519</td><td>GB</td></tr><tr><td>20133</td><td>DE</td></tr><tr><td>17971</td><td>BR</td></tr><tr><td>15058</td><td>EU#COUNTRYISREALLYSOMEWHEREINAFRICANREGION</td></tr><tr><td>15002</td><td>CA</td></tr><tr><td>10569</td><td>GR</td></tr><tr><td>10135</td><td>CH</td></tr><tr><td>9908</td><td>ID</td></tr><tr><td>8936</td><td>IR</td></tr><tr><td>8859</td><td>IT</td></tr></table> <div class='tag_list'>Tags: <span style=font-size:70%;><a href=http://technorati.com/tag/twingine rel=tag>twingine</a> </span></div>Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1117708754633154792005-06-02T12:39:00.000+02:002005-06-02T13:22:45.706+02:00The stats are in. <h2>Top ten IP addresses</h2>The actual addresses are not revealed, but here is the WHOIS information on which corporation owns the ten IP addresses performing most queries on yagoohoogle and twingine: <table><tbody><tr> <td>472572</td> <td>Sony Network Taiwan Limited</td> </tr><tr> <td>27810</td> <td>Ci Mei Electron Co., Ltd., Taiwan</td> </tr><tr> <td>22546</td> <td>Sony Network Taiwan Limited</td> </tr><tr> <td>19787</td> <td>KSC Commercial Internet Co.,Ltd., Thailand</td> </tr><tr> <td>13377</td> <td>Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications</td> </tr><tr> <td>12601</td> <td>C.S.Communications Co., Ltd., Thailand</td> </tr><tr> <td>11828</td> <td>Jasmine Internet Co.,Ltd., Thailand</td> </tr><tr> <td>10997</td> <td>Batelco, Bahrain</td> </tr><tr> <td>9157</td> <td>CAT Telecom Public Company Ltd, Thailand</td> </tr><tr> <td>7490</td> <td>Saudi Network Information Center, ISU, Saudi Arabia</td> </tr></tbody></table> <h2>Top 20 network blocks</h2><table> <tbody><tr><td>473940</td><td>61.62.0.0/16</td></tr><tr><td>342906</td><td>202.0.0.0/7</td></tr><tr><td>40301</td><td>212.138.47.0/24</td></tr><tr><td>32192</td><td>200.128.0.0/9</td></tr><tr><td>31097</td><td>61.220.0.0/14</td></tr><tr><td>25813</td><td>61.56.0.0/13</td></tr><tr><td>24543</td><td>85.96.0.0/12</td></tr><tr><td>21564</td><td>66.0.0.0/8</td></tr><tr><td>15350</td><td>12.0.0.0/8</td></tr><tr><td>14957</td><td>198.0.0.0/8</td></tr><tr><td>11701</td><td>82.224.0.0/11</td></tr><tr><td>11218</td><td>209.0.0.0/8</td></tr><tr><td>11050</td><td>82.194.32.0/19</td></tr><tr><td>11034</td><td>216.0.0.0/8</td></tr><tr><td>11002</td><td>81.192.0.0/16</td></tr><tr><td>10956</td><td>212.138.64.0/22</td></tr><tr><td>10597</td><td>168.0.0.0/8</td></tr><tr><td>8655</td><td>203.200.0.0/16</td></tr><tr><td>7811</td><td>67.160.0.0/11</td></tr><tr><td>7322</td><td>201.0.0.0/12</td></tr> </tbody></table> <h2>Top 20 countries</h2>I got hits from a total of 171 different countries. The top 20 were: <table> <tbody><tr><td>613237</td><td>TW</td></tr><tr><td>497762</td><td>US</td></tr><tr><td>370648</td><td>AU</td></tr><tr><td>102944</td><td>IN</td></tr><tr><td>93858</td><td>TR</td></tr><tr><td>80438</td><td>FR</td></tr><tr><td>61232</td><td>SA</td></tr><tr><td>52499</td><td>JP</td></tr><tr><td>51357</td><td>GB</td></tr><tr><td>45202</td><td>BR</td></tr><tr><td>40687</td><td>DE</td></tr><tr><td>40039</td><td>CA</td></tr><tr><td>37726</td><td>EU#COUNTRYISREALLYSOMEWHEREINAFRICANREGION</td></tr><tr><td>32379</td><td>IL</td></tr><tr><td>31779</td><td>TH</td></tr><tr><td>22910</td><td>IR</td></tr><tr><td>21591</td><td>ES</td></tr><tr><td>18731</td><td>GR</td></tr><tr><td>16316</td><td>ID</td></tr><tr><td>15604</td><td>AE</td></tr> </tbody></table> <h2>Hits</h2>This month, the number of hits has been quite stable. However, when Twingine started, it started receiving the <i>same volume of hits</i> as YaGoohoogle, som the traffic actually nearly doubled! The Twingine traffic is more stable, though. <img src="http://asgeni.home.online.no/hits_may.png" alt="" border="0"><h2>Top 20 queries</h2>There were a total of 2,552,815 queries &acirc;&euro;&#8220; 964,404 of these occurred only once. Aside from the top query (is that obscene?), the actual queries are quite distributed. <table> <tbody><tr><td>526278</td><td>'250&Atilde;&sect;&Acirc;&cent;&Acirc;&frac14; &Atilde;�&Acirc;&frac14;&Atilde;&yen;&Acirc;&frac12;'</td></tr><tr> <td>9353</td><td>'yagoohoogle'</td></tr><tr> <td>5300</td><td>'test'</td></tr><tr> <td>4767</td><td>'sex'</td></tr><tr> <td>3778</td><td>'google'</td></tr><tr> <td>3173</td><td>'yahoo'</td></tr><tr> <td>2132</td><td>'hello'</td></tr><tr> <td>2030</td><td>'Thanks!'</td></tr><tr> <td>1522</td><td>'hi'</td></tr><tr> <td>1520</td><td>'cars'</td></tr><tr> <td>1459</td><td>'between the appalachians and the ozarks is'</td></tr><tr> <td>1361</td><td>'SYSTRAN-Premium-5_0.rar'</td></tr><tr> <td>1181</td><td>'a'</td></tr><tr> <td>1154</td><td>'123'</td></tr><tr> <td>1153</td><td>'twingine'</td></tr><tr> <td>1045</td><td>'games'</td></tr><tr> <td>979</td><td>'apple'</td></tr><tr> <td>961</td><td>'car'</td></tr><tr> <td>950</td><td>'porn'</td></tr><tr> <td>949</td><td>'fuck'</td></tr></tbody></table>Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1113463305424841592005-05-17T20:17:00.000+02:002005-05-17T21:00:20.270+02:00Here is the HTML code for adding a Twingine search box to your site: <pre>&lt;form style="text-align:center;" method="get" action="http://twingine.com/search.php"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="q" size="16"/&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Twingine Search"/&gt; &lt;/form&gt;</pre>Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1116243170077874942005-05-16T13:19:00.000+02:002005-05-17T20:27:53.456+02:00I have discussed further with Yahoo! and Google. And decided upon a solution. As you probably already have noticed, YaGoohoo!gle will disappear into the void (as you see it) on <span style="font-weight: bold;">June 1st</span>. From now on, when you submit queries from YaGoohoo!gle's main page, your query is submitted to <a href="http://twingine.com/">Twingine</a>, YaGoohoo!gle's successor with identical functionality. <a href="http://twingine.com/">Twingine</a>'s front page is a bit boring. That's because I suck at logo design. You are all welcome to submit <span style="font-style: italic;">your</span> suggestion for a logo to me on logos@twingine.com. Please attach your licensing terms for use of the submission. What? You liked the old name, and think the new one sucks? Relax – there is an alternative! I've also registered <a href="http://jaguhugel.com/">jaguhugel.com</a> for you to use. Update your bookmarks, and enjoy your twin view of the world!Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1115631408259192392005-05-09T11:36:00.000+02:002005-05-16T20:35:11.110+02:00It has taken some time to analyze these results. After all, it's 1,061,360,869 bytes of Apache logs to gnaw through.. :-) The total number of searches I have forwarded during April are 2,870,255 searces, averaging 95,454 searches per day. The peak days were Apr 6th (265,556 hits), Apr 7th (220,728 hits), and Apr 5th (180,973 hits).<img src="http://asgeni.home.online.no/hits.png" alt="" border="0" /> <h1>Top 20 countries</h1><table><tbody><tr><th>Country code</th><th>Queries</th></tr><tr><td>US</td><td>847,278</td></tr><tr><td>AU</td><td>235,677</td></tr><tr><td>IN</td><td>234,518</td></tr><tr><td>DE</td><td>119,932</td></tr><tr><td>TR</td><td>109,542</td></tr><tr><td>JP</td><td>104,116</td></tr><tr><td>FR</td><td>99,321</td></tr><tr><td>GB</td><td>97,792</td></tr><tr><td>BR</td><td>91,766</td></tr><tr><td>SA</td><td>82,006</td></tr><tr><td>CA</td><td>72,824</td></tr><tr><td>TW</td><td>62,135</td></tr><tr><td>ES</td><td>44,887</td></tr><tr><td>NL</td><td>37,855</td></tr><tr><td>IL</td><td>33,827</td></tr><tr><td>EU#COUNTRYISREALLYSOMEWHEREINAFRICANREGION</td><td>33,701</td></tr><tr><td>RO</td><td>30,978</td></tr><tr><td>NO</td><td>29,729</td></tr><tr><td>IR</td><td>25,082</td></tr><tr><td>AE</td><td>24,890</td></tr></tbody></table> <h1>Top 20 network blocks</h1><table><tbody><tr><th>Netblock</th><th>Hits</th></tr><tr><td>202.0.0.0/7</td><td>204,746</td></tr><tr><td>200.128.0.0/9</td><td>65,041</td></tr><tr><td>212.138.47.0/24</td><td>59,332</td></tr><tr><td>203.200.0.0/16</td><td>29,831</td></tr><tr><td>2.0.0.0/8</td><td>29,802</td></tr><tr><td>198.0.0.0/8</td><td>29,488</td></tr><tr><td>66.0.0.0/8</td><td>28,054</td></tr><tr><td>85.96.0.0/12</td><td>25,073</td></tr><tr><td>203.199.0.0/16</td><td>20,491</td></tr><tr><td>216.0.0.0/8</td><td>19,312</td></tr><tr><td>203.197.0.0/16</td><td>17,146</td></tr><tr><td>212.138.64.0/22</td><td>16,645</td></tr><tr><td>220.224.0.0/14</td><td>16,480</td></tr><tr><td>201.0.0.0/12</td><td>15,266</td></tr><tr><td>82.224.0.0/11</td><td>14,684</td></tr><tr><td>209.0.0.0/8</td><td>14,629</td></tr><tr><td>67.160.0.0/11</td><td>14,105</td></tr><tr><td>82.194.32.0/19</td><td>12,961</td></tr><tr><td>61.95.128.0/17</td><td>12,769</td></tr><tr><td>192.0.0.0/8</td><td>12,276</td></tr></tbody></table> <h1>Queries</h1><table><tbody><tr><td>27,890</td><td>'test'</td></tr><tr><td>19,801</td><td>'yagoohoogle'</td></tr><tr><td>15,289</td><td>'google'</td></tr><tr><td>12,520</td><td>'sex'</td></tr><tr><td>10,621</td><td>'yahoo'</td></tr><tr><td>8,939</td><td>'hello'</td></tr><tr><td>7,269</td><td>'hi'</td></tr><tr><td>4,247</td><td>'a'</td></tr><tr><td>4,196</td><td>'java'</td></tr><tr><td>3,980</td><td>'lol'</td></tr><tr><td>3,923</td><td>'india'</td></tr><tr><td>3,850</td><td>'cars'</td></tr><tr><td>3,468</td><td>'what'</td></tr><tr><td>3,437</td><td>'fuck'</td></tr><tr><td>3,162</td><td>'ãã£ã¤ã'</td></tr><tr><td>2,834</td><td>'porn'</td></tr><tr><td>2,834</td><td>'123'</td></tr><tr><td>2,605</td><td>'linux'</td></tr><tr><td>2,588</td><td>'car'</td></tr><tr><td>2,420</td><td>'pcinpact'</td></tr></tbody></table> Of the total number of 1,540,841 queries, 1,232,394 occured only once, and 1,522,910 less than ten times. The rest is distributed as follows: <img src="http://asgeni.home.online.no/queries.png" alt="" border="0" /> In other words, a <i>very</i> long tail ..Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1115622285819058432005-05-09T08:57:00.000+02:002005-05-09T09:04:45.833+02:00It was bound to happen, I guess. Both Yahoo! and Google have issued notices of trademark infringements. Instead of contacting me directly, they sent intimidating e-mails to my DNS provider. I have tried to argue with them, but have not had any success with that (yet). So what do <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span> think I should do? <ol> <li>Try to reach an agreement. <span style="font-style: italic;">Do you have any suggestions on how to convince them?</span> </li> <li>Stand on the barricades, claiming there is not sufficient likelihood of confusion or risk of trademark dilution. <span style="font-style: italic;">Do you know any lawyers with experience in U.S. trademark law willing to assist me?</span></li> <li>Drop it and start using <a href="http://jaguhugel.com">jaguhugel.com</a> instead<span style="font-style: italic;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Perhaps you have a different suggestion for a domain name?</span></span></li> </ol> I would very much like some feedback from <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span> on this issue. Just leave a comment on this blog post, or contact me on asgeirn at gmail.Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1115024919122475812005-05-02T11:06:00.000+02:002005-05-02T11:08:39.123+02:00<a href="http://www.edwilde.com/">Ed Wilde</a> delivers yet again. Now he's installed <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard/">Tiger</a>, and created a YaGoohoo!gle <a href="http://www.edwilde.com/plugins/widgets/yagoohoogle.htm">dashboard widget</a>..Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1114163602320328422005-04-22T11:53:00.000+02:002005-04-22T11:53:22.320+02:00<img src="http://asgeni.home.online.no/thisframe.png" style="border:0px;float:right;padding:4px">If you want to show results from only Yahoo! or Google after performing a YaGoohoo!gle search, you can maximize one of the frames to fill the entire window. In Firefox, this option is found under "This Frame" in the context menu, and in <img src="http://asgeni.home.online.no/openframe.png" style="border:0px;float:right;padding:4px;">Opera under "Frame" / "Open" in the context menu. To my knowledge, this is not possible in Internet Explorer.Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1113671528119765812005-04-16T19:10:00.000+02:002005-04-16T19:12:08.120+02:00To improve YaGoohoo!gle's functionality, tell Yahoo! and Google to open search results in new windows. Just click <u>Preferences</u> in each search result view. With Firefox, use <a href="http://www.blogger.com/search.php?q=tabbrowser+preferences">Tabbrowser Preferences</a> to open these new windows as tabs.Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1113146432861568822005-04-12T08:37:00.000+02:002005-04-12T08:37:53.106+02:00<a href="http://edwilde.com/">Ed Wilde</a> has created a YaGoohoo!gle <a href="http://www.edwilde.com/plugins/yagoohoogle.html">search plugin for Firefox.</a>Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1113243189373861412005-04-11T20:13:00.000+02:002005-04-11T20:13:09.373+02:00<a href="http://www.langreiter.com/exec/yahoo-vs-google.html?q=yagoohoogle">yahoo! vs. google</a> shows the top 100 equal results, and their rank in connection with each other. It gives an excellent visual indication on the ranking discreprencies on a given query. Highly recommended.Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062251.post-1113124299078248802005-04-10T22:20:00.000+02:002005-04-10T22:16:50.126+02:00This site started as an <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/31/2117206">April Fool's post on Slashdot</a>, and the saying was that the fool wasn't even any good. I got a fair amount of hits with people searching for "haha", "funny", "april fool", and "bonesaw". Bonesaw? But then traffic rose. I started receiving feedback. The router crashed (I later found out that the DDoS-logic had kicked in). I've got several offers for hosting the site, and donations have started coming in. There are currently 40,500 Google hits and 50,100 Yahoo! hits for "<a href="http://yagoohoogle.com/search.php?q=yagoohoogle">yagoohoogle</a>". <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22356">The Inquirer</a> and <a href="http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,350154,00.html">Spiegel</a> (<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0%2C1518%2C349883%2C00.html">de</a>) has written about it. In this blog I'll try to keep you up to date about the site's status and also searching tips. Comments from anyone are welcome, but I require registered Blogger users (aren't you one already??!) to avoid comment spam. Enjoy YaGoohoo!gle, and keep comparing search results!Asgeir S. Nilsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09990435798930983334noreply@blogger.com