{"id":2857,"date":"2003-05-20T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2003-05-20T16:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2003-05-20T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2003-05-20T16:47:27","slug":"weblog_searchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Weblog Searching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/\">Dave<\/a> came up with some <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptingnews.userland.com\/aboutWeblogSearch\">new software for searching weblogs<\/a> running on <a href=\"http:\/\/manila.userland.com\/\">Manila<\/a> (At least I&#8217;m assuming on Manila).  The way he does it is pretty cool, and one that works well for how Manila is designed.  It uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/apis\/\">Google API<\/a> to send a query and then uses the results to pull entries from the blog database. I could actually see something similar being written for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\">Movable Type<\/a>, as I&#8217;ve found the searching they have built in tends to be a bit slow.  That&#8217;s the reason I replaced it with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htdig.org\/\">ht:\/\/dig<\/a>.  ht:\/\/dig isn&#8217;t necessarily the solution for someone who isn&#8217;t that much of a programmer, it takes a bit of effort to get it installed. But I could also see using something like Dave&#8217;s software using ht:\/\/dig too (since you can format the output however you want).  Does ht:\/\/dig give as good a set of results as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a>? I&#8217;m not sure. But does it give search results that are good enough? I bet for most people it does. I&#8217;ve never had any real issues with it at least.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t have any a bit problem with using Google for something like this.  That&#8217;s what&#8217;s it&#8217;s for. But I tend to think of how things work when third party services aren&#8217;t around.  What happens if someone goes to search and Google is down.  With something like ht:\/\/dig, the site would be running it locally so would have a bit more control over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave came up with some new software for searching weblogs running on Manila (At least I&#8217;m assuming on Manila). The way he does it is pretty cool, and one that works well for how Manila is designed. It uses the Google API to send a query and then uses the results to pull entries from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}