Comments on: Three search engines, one interface – 25 minutes live code

By: Aphrodisiac

Aphrodisiac — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:39:54 +0000

amazing
thanks

By: Darkimmortal

Darkimmortal — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:43:54 +0000

Mashup… What a repulsive word (and concept).

By: eyelidlessness

eyelidlessness — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:14:06 +0000

That should read [copiedengine]out += ‘’ and [pastedengine]out += ‘’

By: eyelidlessness

eyelidlessness — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:54:35 +0000

Chris Heilmann, I’m sorry if that came across the way it seems it did. It was meant to be a bit humorous and was in no way meant as a dig against you. Obviously I thought the screencast was neat, which I said.

For what it’s worth, the only constructive criticism I could offer is that I did notice one code error (which I’d imagine you missed because you were moving quickly for the screencast): for one of the engines, you had copied and pasted the previous engine (forgive me, it’s been a day since I watched the video so I don’t remember which two), but forgot to change [copiedengine]out += ” to [pastedengine]out += ”.

It’s all sort of beside the point, as that code was barely the interesting part of the screencast. The idea that it’s as simple as that to mashup search results is very encouraging, and it’s cool to see it demonstrated. Thanks for your work.

By: alfredwesterveld

alfredwesterveld — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:39:00 +0000

Good video, but I think this video would be even better with some audio (you talking) :).

By: WillPeavy

WillPeavy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:30:06 +0000

This is awesome. YQL is awesome. I’m going to use it in a project I’m working on.

@Chris Heilmann – thanks for making the source available.

By: Chris Heilmann

Chris Heilmann — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:24:35 +0000

@eyelidlessness – I am still young and inexperienced, I hope when I grow up I will be as awesome as you are. Until then I can only hope that useful feedback will make me better. And I love your URL.

@dfabulich Interesting point. However, “doesn’t work” is a bit harsh – it is a data issue, and I am sure with enough demand Google will change that. It is easy to switch to another API though.

By: Remi

Remi — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:52:27 +0000

@dfabulich : Yes, but testing Google’s Ajax API was not the main purpose of this demo ;)

Good job Christian ! Love it !

By: eyelidlessness

eyelidlessness — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:35:46 +0000

That was neat. But the typos (and at least one code mistake) were painful. I thought I mistyped a lot!

By: dfabulich

dfabulich — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:21:59 +0000

Cool… Unfortunately, this is powered by Google’s AJAX API, which doesn’t really work. http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=43