[Developers] Google Custom Search Engine + Vancouver Base

Robert Cook robert at metaweb.com
Tue Dec 9 01:46:20 UTC 2008


This is very cool!  Jim, if you do the small tweak so it can work with  
any base, we'll weave it in to the interface.

R
On Dec 8, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Jason Douglas wrote:

> Very clever!!
>
> I never thought of that mash-up before, but the results speak for
> themselves.  :-)
>
> -jason
>
>
> On Dec 8, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Jim Pick wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just used Acre to build a Google Custom Search Engine based on the
>> data contained in the Vancouver Base.
>>
>>  http://vanbase.jpick.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/search
>>
>> Please look the Acre source code and feel free to clone it.
>>
>> There are currently 1145 URLs it searches against.  I've only done a
>> few
>> searches with it, but it does a very good job for things in the
>> Vancouver area.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Jim
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