Photo Credit: Syntax Error - Folded Up Beyond All Recognition by Simon Pow

Oh the weather outside is frightful
By my Mac it’s so delightful
Sign on to my WordPress node
Hack the code, hack the code, hack the code

Er, sorry about that folks (and Mr. Brooks). So I’ve spent my weekend fooling around with WordPress plug-ins and enjoying some hard-core coding action with a hot PHP interpreter. The results of which, are a handful of new features on this site, a few little things that should make your stay here even more rewarding than it already is (I know, I know – that hardly seems possible – but I’ve managed it, superstar hacker that I am.)

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Goosh is a command line interface (or shell) to the Google search engine. It works as advertised and is, I suppose, a decent technology demo. But I have to ask - why?

Two heavyweights prepare to do battle. Google versus Wolfram Research (awesome screencast). This is going to interesting.

In Japan, advertisers direct their potential web audience to enter specific keywords into search engines instead of their company URLs.

A standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant full-text search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes). [via]

An elegant search engine with multiple visual result styles. Great fun.