BetterSearch Issues on Google …Fixed!
I was made aware that BetterSearch is currently not working on Google. Apparently, Google changed the HTML of the results page, and BetterSearch doesn’t know what to do.
I’ll release 1.22 soon. Stay tuned.
Update 2008-08-22: I’ve just uploaded v1.22 to the Mozilla addon site; once it’s been reviewed by the staff there, it should show up here.
Update 2008-08-24: v1.22 was reviewed and approved!
BetterSearch v1.21 Released
I’ve updated BetterSearch, my Firefox/Flock addon, to version 1.21. Here’s what’s new:
- Compatible with Flock 2 beta+.
- FIX: Action icons are back.
- FIX: Delicious support unbroken! It’s glorious.
- FIX: MSN/Live support works again.
- FIX: Statusbar tooltip was showing the wrong version number. Silly thing.
- FIX: Made some minor enhancements to Google URL normalisation.
- FIX: Removed remnant code (“big icons” etc.).
- CHG: Removed support for everything but Yahoo!, Google, MSN and Delicious. Sorry, don’t have the time anymore to keep track of anything else.
Go get the new version while it’s still hot! :)
BetterSearch v1.20 Released
Brings no new features to the table (sorry) but compatibility with Firefox 3.0.* and Flock 1.2.
BetterSearch v1.19 Released
I’ve updated my Firefox addon BetterSearch to version 1.19. The update brings Firefox 3 and Flock compatibility and fixes the thumbnails for Yahoo! Search. Also, it now looks a little bit better due to new icons, c/o FamFamFam.
You remember BetterSearch, right? No? Oh, okay.
“An extension for Firefox and Flock which enhances Google (all international flavours, too), Yahoo Search, del.icio.us, MSN Search […] by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product images and info (type, price, rating for US/DE/UK/CA/FR products), a quick preview feature as well as “Open in New Window”, “Site Info” and “Wayback Machine” links to the search results.”
The other changes are minor and mostly under the hood to prepare for the next major version.
Next up: better thumbnails. Work, work…
Thank you, Elderlies of Japan
Dear old people of Nippon,
thank you. It is only because of you that I am still the one and only Yahoo!/Google search engine result for the term Gerontomageddon.
Sincerely yours, Carlo
Post It #23
Quote of the day. Today by Beryl. Wise words, for those of you who don’t know or may have forgotten:
Do not pour your heart, soul, and life into your job. When the job goes sour, you may have nothing left.
That said, I really like my job. But it’s not my life—and that isn’t a contradiction.
Schöne Worte. Dana über das, was ich tue—programmieren, gern auch kreativ.
Es ist irgendwie Handwerk, ja. Du arbeitest schon mit Deinen Händen, aber Dein Werkstoff sind Ideen.
How to beat Google. Rich Skrenta lists some thoughts on how to do it.. I like this little nugget of wisdom, because it’s well said. (Emphasis mine.)
You cannot build something new and different with a big team. Big teams are only capable of duplicating existing technology. The sum of 20 sets of vision is mud.
Post It #18
YUI hosting. Nate on Free Hosting of YUI Files from Yahoo!:
Coinciding with this week’s release of YUI version 2.2.0, the one year anniversary of the YUI open-source release, and as announced at the YUI Party just moments ago, we’re opening up free YUI hosting from the Yahoo! network to all YUI implementers. If you’re using YUI for your own project, we’ll serve the files for you — gzipped, with good cache-control, using our state-of-the-art network, for free. You can count on these files being continuously available because they’re the same files, served by the same source, that we use for most YUI implementations at Yahoo!.
This is big, folks. Smart move, too.
Dell IdeaStorm. Dell.com’s new suggestions site kind of looks familiar. That said, I really like the idea of companies publicly gathering and displaying ideas from their users—when done right, this can be a win-win for everyone, so power to every company implementing one of those. Anyways, the one suggestion that made me grin?
Have Michael Dell try actually buying a PC using Dell.com
Google Apps. Business 2.0 Beta (how’s that for a blog name?) asks Are Google Apps’ Customers For Real?.
Here’s what Procter & Gamble actually says: “P&G will work closely with Google in shaping enterprise characteristics and requirements for these popular tools.” Translation: “One of our sysadmins is going to sign up for an account and send you bitchy emails about missing features.”
Don’t get me wrong, I like their web-based office tools, even though I don’t use them regularly. They’re well done, no doubt about it. But by now I find it somewhat unnerving that every single time Google launches something, it is hailed as the holy grail of the intarwebs.
Warcraft Lore, told by jokers. WOW Insider’s ‘Know Your Lore’ segments are pretty good. Every now and then they pick a person or event from the rich Warcraft history and recap it quickly in a fun way.
Arthas was the son of King Terenas Menethil, ruler of Lordaeron. As a youth, he trained in the art of combat and joined the Silver Hand, a group of paladins. He became known for his exploits in battle. He also briefly dallied with a young mage named Jaina Proudmoore, but it didn’t work out because long-distance things never end well. They decided to remain friends, which is as big a sign of impending doom as one can get.
Post It #12
Technorati WTF. Technorati launches their WTFsystem. I see the possibility of serious abuse, but we’ll see whether I am too paranoid. Anyways, the short summary:
Know something that’s hot? Explain why! This is your opportunity to write a quick explanation for the buzz around a popular subject. No blog required!
getElementsByClassName() in Firefox 3. Native, built-in! Because John said so.
Get your URLs straight. A good explanation why everyone should be using disambiguated URLs by (of course) Mr. Willison. (Now all I need to do is “fix” my site.)
Presently. Apparently Google is working on a presentation tool. Is anyone really surprised? I ain’t. For the time being, I’ll stick with S5, tho. But I believe Google will be taking a slightly different approach than the creator of S5, i.e. they’ll continue catering to non-geeks.
Post It #6
BookmarkID? Ka-Ping Yee came up with a funny idea on how to battle phishing using browser bookmarks.
Google Earth Space Art. [via Mr. Willison] Space Invaders on Google Maps/Earth. Great. :)
Amen. Mr. Alfke, you’re absolutely right:
“[A]nyone who’ll voluntarily use ‘vi’ in the 21st century will put up with anything. [..] And that goes for ‘emacs’ too [..] I thought emacs was really cool, in 1986. That’s when it was really cool to have a DEC VT220 terminal in my dorm room with a 9600 baud connection to a VAX running BSD 4.3.”
Frag Mama! Der Michl ist im SZ-Magazin! Knüller. War ganz überrascht, als ich ihn da sah. Junge, aus Dir wird nochmal was!
Multigeschwindigkeitsklitorisstimulator
Fun fact: Google muß passen bei dem Wort “Multigeschwindigkeitsklitorisstimulator”.
In your face, information machine.
