[Developers] Google Custom Search Engine + Vancouver Base

[Jim Pick]

Also, you want to be careful not to attact too many of the "SEO" types 
onto the site too early, or you're bound to have moderation problems.

   http://www.contrast.ie/blog/seo-is-bullshit/

Cheers,

  - Jim

Jim Pick wrote:
> It shouldn't be too hard to parameterize a few parts, and make it 
> generic.  It doesn't use any custom types from the Vancouver base.
> 
> One thing I noticed is that I need to sanitize the data a bit better 
> before passing it on -- any poorly formatted URIs that get added to the 
> base will kill it for everybody.  I bet there's probably already a 
> JavaScript library out there somewhere to do that.
> 
> The custom search engine needs to be created and registered first with 
> Google (tied to a user or group of users).  They do have an automated 
> way to generate custom search engine descriptions.  Also, they require 
> advertising, unless it's for a non-profit or charity.  They do pay 
> AdSense revenue to whoever has registered the search engine.
> 
> So in order to make it generic, some decisions have to be made about how 
> to register and configure it on the Google side (including decisions 
> about who gets the AdSense money, however small that may be).
> 
> Google also has limits on the number of "annotations" (aka. sites) they 
> will index.  I think it's 3MB per annotation file, 10MB max.  That 
> limits the total size.  I'm at 132K for 1168 URIs now.   If I'm 
> aggressive in collecting data, I might eventually hit the limit for the 
> Vancouver base - at which point I'll have to get selective.
> 
> Yahoo BOSS looks like an interesting alternative to try out as well 
> (with news and images too).  There probably are other similar services 
> lurking out there (eg. sites that read OPML files).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>   - Jim
> 
> Robert Cook wrote:
>> 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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