If you read weblogs and you haven't been using Feedster, then get with the program :-) I've tried all of the various blog search and tracking tools and nothing comes close to Feedster, especially for up to the minute, date-sorted results.
There's just one thing that I really want from Feedster that it doesn't seem to offer and that's a "simple results page" -- a search results list that's nothing more than a list of results links.
I'm looking for a results list that can easily be opened in tabs with Linky's "open selected links in tabs" or "open all links in tabs". For my purposes I wouldn't even mind the short summary, but the current results page has about 11 links for every listing which makes using Linky pretty much impossible.
If any of you out there have any suggestions about how I could make this work, I'd really appreciate it.
update: and in case you hadn't noticed, I've added a search utility over on the left under the blogroll and archive links that lets you search this blog via feedster. It returns results sorted by date with the most recent entries at the top. Unfortunately, it looks like Feedster stopped indexing me a couple of weeks ago. I wonder what that's all about. (another update: maybe it's because if this.)
Posted by asa at February 29, 2004 12:47 AMHi Asa,
a) I can probably implement some kind of alternate result set but I don't really understand what you want. Mind making me an html demo of it and shooting it over to me ?
b) I'm not sure what this problem is but our logs show us as having indexed you so there's clearly something wrong on our side. Rest assured that we are looking into it.
Thanks for your support as always.
Scott
Posted by: Scott Johnson on February 29, 2004 06:02 AMHi,
I keep thinking about this simple results template that you want and am realizing that what is needed would be **JUST** the links to the articles. No advertisers, No links in the page footer, no link to the home page, etc. Is that what you mean ?
Posted by: Scott Johnson on February 29, 2004 11:26 AMScott, what I'm looking for is something that looks like this:
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<a href="http://postneo.com/2004/02/29.html#a3313">Minimo</a>
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OSNews points to Minimo , a Mozilla project designed to bring the Mozilla browser to embedded and mobile Linux distros that have 32-64MB available to them. Check out the screenshots of Minimo running Familiar Linux on on iPAQ.
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<div class="details">
Published 9 hours, 23 minutes ago
</div>
</div>
<div id="result">
<div class="title">
<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/drdrivel/26535.html">Eh...</a>
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There's a fine line between witty and obnoxious. Actually, it's a chasm - narrow, but deep. And into it falls a really, really lot of people, with a good majority of the entire Internet tumbling over like lemmings. George Carlin said that the key to...
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Published 11 hours, 7 minutes ago
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You can put all the advertisements on the page that it can fit :-) The thing I'm looking for is a results list without all the extra "tools" like "Hide - Show: All Images Links Feed" and "Similar posts - Cached - Translate"
I appreciate all these extras and use them too. But one of my common usage scenarios is to do a search and want to look at all of the search results in tabs. It gets tedious right clicking on each of the _actual_results_ links and opening those in new tabs. I use a Firefox extension called Linky that has the option to "open selected links in tabs".
How I'd like to be able to use this extension is to click-drag-select all of the displayed results and then right-click the context menu and select "open selected links in tabs".
The problem now is that there are all these other links included in each results listing that will also be opened in tabs when I use Linky and some of them actually hose me if I accidentally open them (like "hide").
Advertisements, as long as they were out of the normal "click at the top of the results list and drag down to the bottom to select all the results" path, would be fine. Any results summaries, as long as they didn't include links, would be fine.
All the normal search headers, footers, the search field itself, all that's fine. I just need the results section to be cleaned up so that it only includes the links to the actual search results.
Does this make sense?
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on February 29, 2004 12:10 PMHere's a photoshopped screenshot of sort of the minimal change I'd like.
Here's an even "cleaner" version, that would make drag selection even faster.
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on February 29, 2004 01:06 PMHi Asa,
I've been looking into thsi and I have the raw HTTP headers to show you when you get a chance (please email scott [at] feedster.com/ IM (feedster2003 on AIM) me). It seems like our crawler is getting turned away.
Scott
Posted by: Scott Johnson of Feedster on March 1, 2004 05:48 AMAsa,
How's this:
Step 1: Goto the development version of Feedster preferences and save your cookie to have the Linky Yes preference (last radio button grouping).
Step 2: Run this search:
http://feedster.net/search.php?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=feedster&btnG=Search&sort=date
There's almost certainly some warts and flaws (do you need a link back to the real search ? Did I leave anything too hard to deal with?)
Best
Scott
Gr.. I forgot to put the url for the preferences:
Scott
Posted by: Scott Johnson of Feedster on March 1, 2004 06:45 AM
