TagsTagsHere's a very handy Javascript bookmarklet I whipped up yesterday, when I realized I was often searching the LGF archives for phrases on other sites; for example, when I was writing the post about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, I wanted to search LGF for my previous ...
Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Search Engine, Bookmarklet
Since adding the Search Requests feature to our Referrers page, I began to notice that a large number of our hits from Google were coming from their "Image Search" results pages. So to make things a little more interesting, I added the code to pop up the images that people ...
Little Green Footballs, Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Referrers, Search Engine, jQuery
Long ago, in an LGF application that relied on a custom-made flat file database now lost in the mists of antiquity, we had a feature that showed the actual search queries that brought visitors to our humble abode. This feature was dropped when we switched over to a grown-up MySQL database, ...
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Google announced today that they will be redirecting Chinese users to their Hong Kong search page, where uncensored results will be shown in simplified Chinese: Official Google Blog: A new approach to China: an update. This earns Google some good karma, and reduces their Evil Quotient considerably. The obvious possible hitch ...
Google announced today that they would not remove a racist image of Michelle Obama from their image search page, where it was showing up as the first result: Google won’t exclude distorted Michelle Obama image from its site. But the blog that posted the image has now removed it themselves: Blog ...
The European Union is putting up $152 million to fund a search engine that will compete with Google. Who was that snickering in the back of the room? OK, maybe it was me. I can’t help it. I’m picturing an EU-approved search engine, and I can’t stop giggling. EUgle! Bwa ha ha!