Comments on: The height of arrogance http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38395 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:31:03 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38395 That’s okay. :)

To answer the questions about the built-in search tool, I don’t like it. The results are full-length posts arranged on this page in the same format and style, showing only 10 or so at a time.

I happen to like the way Google/Scroogle spits out results, with a long series of links directly to the page. It’s far more convenient than sifting through huge pages looking for one post in particular. If I’m just searching for links to past posts, it’s much quicker to get a list that is hooked directly to the pages, than another whole page of posts.

It’s also easier to jab at that search bar, press return and get results. Searching on this page requires too many other pages in between. First I have to the front of the blog, scroll down, enter a search term, wait for the engine to show the results, scroll through those pages. …

You get the idea. It’s either that or use elinks all the time. Not a bad idea, actually. … :)

]]> By: eksith http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38394 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:05:14 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38394 Ooops… I just needed to scroll down :P

]]> By: eksith http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38392 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:54:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38392 @IceBrain
Except Tor still relies on the other end having a properly maintained node. If not, your info can still be leaked. Of course, with a Google search, that’s probably not going to matter much.

I’m wondering why this blog doesn’t have the search form built into WordPress. You can customise the sidebar and include the search widget and skip all of this.

]]> By: IceBrain http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38385 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:41:24 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38385 @Mads: no, the advertisers can’t count if you view the TV ads, they can’t even know if you’re viewing that channel, so it always “counts” as a view. The Google ads can be counted by the number of HTTP requests, and those you don’t view aren’t paid to Google.
If the problem is fear of being tracked, just use Tor (lost IP tracking) and disable cookies (lost cookie tracking). That along with a referal killing proxy (such as privoxy, which comes with Tor) disables all kinds of tracking.
Besides, it’s funny how you trust Scroogle more than Google. How do you know Scroogle isn’t logging? Just because they say they don’t?

More on topic, just make a bookmark with “http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?Gw=%s+site:kmandla.wordpress.com” and some keyword like kmandla.
Then you can search by typing kmadla [search terms] on the url bar.

]]> By: Dr Small http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38380 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:06:48 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38380 I made one of those for my site long ago. It was really helpful for finding quick commands that I had forgotten. But I’m using Vimperator now, so I don’t see those search bars anymore :D

]]> By: Mads http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38379 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:41:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38379 Sorry, yeah I meant scroogle (use it too – with the added paranoia of sending all requests through tor courtesy of a FoxyProxy pattern). No my point was just that keyword searches are a lot easier to add than search plugins. Probably not even pertinent to your post, sorry :|

@IceBrain: Yeah, it’s leeching. Just like bath room breaks during commercials. For shame.

]]> By: IceBrain http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38378 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:23:51 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38378 So you’re basically leeching on Google, by using their services without giving the ad views in return.

Besides, what’s the problem with that search bar down there on this site? It seems to work fairly well.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38376 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:10:04 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38376 I suppose, if you want to use Google. Was that your question? I’d still have to direct it at Scroogle though, wouldn’t I? Can that be done through that menu? I didn’t see it.

]]> By: Mads http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38374 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:56:13 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-height-of-arrogance/#comment-38374 ‘Add a keyword for this search’ in Google’s search field to create a search bookmark, then edit it to add ‘+site:kmandla.wordpress.com’ on the address line?

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