A new Internet-search website written in Python

[hrgzsl]

Dear Python-list subscribers,


The purpose of this email is to inform the Python-list mailing-list
subscribers of an Internet-search website that is run by software
written in Python.


The website has been in development for several months, and although
it is not in a very polished state as of now, its core functions, such
as categorizing search engines, are working, and hence it was decided
that its existence would be publicly announced.


The website allows its users to search the Internet using existing
search engines and search functions of existing websites, such as

- Google, Yahoo!, and Bing, for general-purpose web searches;
- search functions of Wikipedia and Dictionary.com, for searches
within specific referential works; and
- Google Images and the search function of YouTube, for multimedia-searches.

The examples mentioned above are a small portion of supported
engines/websites, and currently more than 100 are supported.


The website is currently accessible via the following address:

http://www.search-aggregator.com/


If you require help using the website, or encounter a problem with the
website, please send an e-mail to the following e-mail address:

(e-mail address removed)

Help e-mails will be welcome, and problem reports will be appreciated.

 

[Paul Rubin]

The purpose of this email is to inform the Python-list mailing-list
subscribers of an Internet-search website that is run by software
written in Python.

Is the software downloadable? If not, why should anyone here care
what language it is written in?

 

[hrgzsl]

Is the software downloadable? If not, why should anyone here care
what language it is written in?

Dear Paul,

I am afraid the software is currently not downloadable. But the fact
that it is written in Python might be of interest to some people, and
that was the reason for the sending of the previous e-mail.

By the way, I have noticed that the address in the "from" field in
your e-mail is set to "http://[email protected]". Is this supposed
to imply that my previous e-mail is considered to be spam?

Taro Taniguchi

 

[Chris Jones]

....

By the way, I have noticed that the address in the "from" field in
your e-mail is set to "http://[email protected]". Is this supposed
to imply that my previous e-mail is considered to be spam?

It just means that Paul Rubin is not giving out his email address.

Why he's adding insult to injury by cooking up a syntaxically malformed
address - notice the colon (":") - is anybody's guess, though.

cf. "Section 3.3 - Lexical Tokens" of this document:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt

CJ

 

[Aahz]

Is the software downloadable? If not, why should anyone here care
what language it is written in?

Same reason we care what language YouTube is written in.
--
Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a
koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You
discover truth everytime you use it." (e-mail address removed)

 

[John Nagle]

The purpose of this email is to inform the Python-list mailing-list
subscribers of an Internet-search website that is run by software
written in Python.

All the site seems to do is frame the results from other search engines.

What does the Python code do?

John Nagle

 

[hrgzsl]

All the site seems to do is frame the results from other search engines.

What does the Python code do?

John Nagle

That is correct, the result pages of the search engines are presented
in frames, and the website doesn't do any searching itself. So it is
not exactly a search engine.

The Python code manages other aspects of the website, like URL mapping
and generation of navigation items.

Taro Taniguchi