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SpacePirate

Hello, all... In a moment of inspiration/boredom, I created (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/infernostudios/search.html")The Plug-in Search Engine(/url), making use of available technologies, and some Javascript. It works quite well, and so use it as you will. And please, excuse the crappy graphics.

Enjoy!
~ SpacePirate

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UncleTwitchy

Kick ass.

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Entarus

Very nice !

Entarus,

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orcaloverbri9

Cool! Extraordinarily simple, but cool!

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Tiresmoke

Thanks

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mrxak

Excellent.

Guest_Wyrm_*

Unfortunately, even this doesn't help me find "Miners -A mini-TC for EV Nova" (I think that was what I said.. I saw it in someone's sig once, and haven't been able to find it since. (Yes, I did try searching the boards...)

mrxak

Maybe it never got finished.

LawnGnome

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Originally posted by Wyrm:
Unfortunately, even this doesn't help me find "Miners -A mini-TC for EV Nova" (I think that was what I said.. I saw it in someone's sig once, and haven't been able to find it since. (Yes, I did try searching the boards...)

As I recall, I think that's Arion's sig. I'll go check.

Edit: Yep, here's the part of his sig that you want:

(url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/starlight_dev/.Public/evnminers.sit")EVN: Miners - small TC done within a week.(/url) (5,1 MB)
(url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/starlight_dev/.Public/miners-images.sit")Extension to the plugin above (large shipyard images).(/url) (1,9 MB)

For the record, these didn't show up in the search because they're not on the addons page.
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SpacePirate

Thanks for the positive feedback, everyone! As I mentioned in the sister topic on the Nova Board, if people would like to put this in their signatures, it would help to get the word out. If you would like to do so, feel free.

~ SpacePirate

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ELS Artsist

Very nice. Interesting use of google. Alot faster then the normal site! Thanks,

-Xeres

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Captain Phillips

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Originally posted by SpacePirate:
**Hello, all... In a moment of inspiration/boredom, I created The Plug-in Search Engine, making use of available technologies, and some Javascript. It works quite well, and so use it as you will.:) And please, excuse the crappy graphics.

Enjoy!
~ SpacePirate

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In the file type and game type you should add a "any" option. that would help.

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AriosSw

Ingenious, SpacePirate, I must say!

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EVula

Odd, that doesn't work at all in Netscape.

Incidently, I'm mentioned in 136 Addon entries. Mmmm, ego boosting...

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SpacePirate

Captain Phillips, It is being implemented now.

Thanks, Jeff.

EVula, that is very odd... It worked for me, using a freshly downloaded copy of the latest version (7.1). On the other note, perhaps I should add a -EVula term...

~ SpacePirate

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EVula

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Originally posted by SpacePirate:
EVula, that is very odd... It worked for me, using a freshly downloaded copy of the latest version (7.1).

I'm using 4.75, since I'm on my OS9 box here at work. While NS does have issues with sites on a regular basis, I saw nothing that would cause there to be 0 results like I was (not) seeing.

(quote)Originally posted by SpacePirate:
**On the other note, perhaps I should add a -EVula term...:)

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Dr. Trowel

On Netscape 4.6 & Mac OS 9.1, the search term reported on the Google page is for "category=test" regardless of the add-on category chosen from the pull-down menu on SpacePirate's page. If I manually edit the search string (to instead include "category=plugins," for instance), then Google under Netscape returns the same results I get in IE.

Regarding those single-plug description pages I mentioned in your announcement topic on the EVN board: I think those pages aren't showing up in the searches because they have no standing links on the add-ons page, and therefore don't get crawled by Google. I've got no clue whether it would take a couple hours or a couple days to give the add-ons page a link to an auto-updating page that had nothing but a huge list of links to all those little pages. EVula may be the guy in the best position to do such a thing or know what is involved.... as usual....

SpacePirate

All righty... After a while playing in Netscape 4 (Dear lord, I forgot how much I hate Netscape. ;)), I found the problem, and, as expected, Netscape didn't like my Javascript, which appeared to be standard. So, I went and found something that actually worked (frm.type.selectedIndex instead of frm.type.value). Also, Dr. Trowel mentioned something else I added in... I changed the search terms, so that they did not return redundant pages, previously it would return the same results for date, name, size, rating, and downloads, and occasionally other pages that contain the terms. These terms are much rarer, and so now you get more specific pages. So, EVula, now you only get 6 results.

~ SpacePirate

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Captain Phillips

I think the "all titles" option Is a bit buggy. during one search for "all titles" I got an Ares plug.

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Dr. Trowel

Nice to see fewer redundant pages! Thanks.

Hm. Just noticed that the results window comes up without toolbars (in IE 5.0 in Mac OS 9.2). Did you do that on purpose? I'd rather have the 'bars there, but it's no big deal either way.

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