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A Delphi specific search engine

May 02 2007 7:59AM

I've been putting together a custom Delphi specific search engine using Google and I'm finally ready to blog about it. The URL is:

http://www.stevetrefethen.com/delphisearch

That page contains a search box that will search (currently) 45 different Delphi related websites I've personally selected. For example, here is a search for TListView. Here is another search for MagicAjax.NET that avoids the search problems I mentioned with CodeCentral, notice the CodeCentral link is second in the list though it's the author link not the article link but still much better than before.

Give it a shot and let me know how well it works for you. I may also be looking for contributors so let me know if that's something that interests you as well.

[Update May 2, 2007] Fix TListview search link

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5/2/2007 9:10:06 AM #

Good idea - but it's very heavy on the adverts :-(

Dave Craggs

5/2/2007 9:59:06 AM #

Hi. I created a Firefox search plugin that uses this page to do the search. Do you mind if I put the word out on it?

Fernando Madruga

5/2/2007 11:34:21 AM #

BTW: The search link for TListview is broken.

Fernando Madruga

5/2/2007 11:52:17 AM #

Two more notes:

1) Disregard my previous comment of the search plugin! I hadn't tested it, just followed the instructions on mozilla's site about creating one, and it turns out that making it work is going to require much more work than I willing to put into it right now...

2) Clicking on your stevetrefethen.com logo in the Delphi search page attemps to go to "www.stevetrefethen.com/search/delphi.htm", which is wrong. The proper place would be the blog.

Fernando Madruga

5/2/2007 1:08:42 PM #

The search results page can be created without advertisments -see Google Custom Search.

Agree, nice idea but nicer without the revenue stream on the Google Search. Thanks.

Steve Gradijan

5/2/2007 3:14:19 PM #

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the feedback. I've fixed the link in the blog and will work to tweak the page so it has fewer ads. I used my blog template which, I agree, is a bit overkill on the ads. I'll need to rework the layout a bit to tone things down. The ads for the search results can't be turned off because that's strictly "for non-profits, universities, and government agencies only".

Steve Trefethen

5/2/2007 3:51:04 PM #

Since you fixed the broken link to go to the same site, it wouldn't hurt to add a link to your blog on the left! Or, make the click on the main logo do that instead: it's pointless returning to the same page and not having a link to your blog there!

Fernando Madruga

5/2/2007 11:23:05 PM #

Looks great! I like coder-based search engines (like Google's code search) and I think this will turn out to be very useful. Great idea!

There is a rendering problem on Firefox 2 on Windows: the bottom of the tenth result is chopped off (at the bottom of the page). Presumably below that there's a 'Next 10' kind of link, but if so it's completely off the bottom of the page. This was just following your TListView link above. (Note: I tried it a second time and I think it still wasn't right, but it ended at a different spot. Maybe some ajaxy page layout stuff to work out?)

David M

5/3/2007 6:11:41 AM #

Hi David,
Thanks! Regarding the footer problem I'm not doing anything special though I've noticed odd rendering as well. I'll do a little poking when I get a chance to see if I can figure out what's going on.

Steve Trefethen

5/3/2007 2:26:56 PM #

Hello. Can we see the list of included sites? May be we have something to add. It would be great to add some very advanced russian sites. Thank you.

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Igor Skomorokh

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