Hi, I've been accessing this site for about a year now, I don't have constant Internet access (may change soon), so I'm more a once a week man. Even though I have come across other similar sites, I kind of gravitate back to this one, it seems to have a good core of knowledgeable programmers. I...

Some of you may know this already but off and on in the past, I have been playing with the idea to write a simple little search engine for myself -- it's like a hobby of mine, you could say... Over the last few days, I have been looking at my notes again and I made some progress writing some new...

Just over 2 months have passed since soft-launching the site and finally, today (for the past 19 hours to be exact), Googlebot is crawling the site (pages) non-stop!

I just took a closer look at GIDSearch and there are 2 things I didn't really like. 1) the resluts use a redirect url. Nothing wrong with that, but there is no privacy policy (yet?). I think I know JdS isn't going to report if I click some 'strange' url, but with a redirect, that might log things,...

I promised GIDSearch™ will be up by the end of the month and so it is! GIDSearch™. What you see today (and for the next one month or so) will just be Phase 1 of 3. I was supposed to soft-launch the site including Phase 2 but that is now impossible to do before the end of May 2004. Now that...

I was hoping to get this up and running before the end of the month (April 2004) but that seems to be impossible right now (seeing how I won't be around for the next few days)... However, a soft-launch in May 2004 is quite certain. Progress Report: The crawler (GIDBot) is FINALLY ready and so...

I am testing GIDBot here: http://www.gidsearch.com/test/extractor.php. Feel free to test this 'baby' out and let me know if you find something odd if you come across any. What I am trying to test with this little script is whether it picks up the various relevant bits off a web page i.e. TITLE,...