(techie vanitie) Anyone up for creating a FreeRepublic search plugin for FireFox?

mozdev.org ^ | 1/14/06 | Marty F

[martin_fierro]

Anyone up for creating a FreeRepublic-specific search plugin for FireFox?

The plugin needn't be anything fancy -- it could basically be a shortcut for the Google "site:freerepublic.com" query, or something similar.

There's a Firefox Plugin generator here, but darned if I know how to use it.

This plugin might be useful for searching the bodies of past FR threads, not just the titles.

[martin_fierro]

"In someone's ear."

[martin_fierro]

Ping

[Tijeras_Slim]

[jdm]

"This plugin might be useful for searching the bodies of past FR threads, not just the titles."

Bears repeating.

If I had a nickel for every time I, myself, or someone else needed to find an old, archived article on FR using keywords from the story itself, I'd have a few bucks by now.

Let me look into this. I'm not the biggest techy out there, by a long shot, but judging from the screen, requirements, looks quite doable fairly readily.

[martin_fierro]

[willieroe]

http://www.google.com/swr?q=site:freerepublic.com&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&swrnum=2050000

Add this page to your Favorites, name it "Free Republic Google Search" - or are you looking for something more complex?

[martin_fierro]

Well the end result would be the same, but this plugin would be a little more sophisticated in that it could be stored and shared via the Mozilla site.

It might take the FireFox search feature...

...and add the FR icon...

...to look something like:

[Brett66]

I'd just like the search feature on FR to be enhanced to be more like Google. For example, if I type in "NASA" in the search field, I won't get any article that has "NASA's" in the title. That's one reason there are so many duplicate threads.

[xcamel]

This works great with opera with the shortcut named "FR DeepSearch" on the personal bar.

[willieroe]

For example, if I type in "NASA" in the search field, I won't get any article that has "NASA's" in the title.

Pick another example. :-) I just did that search and got this article as the 19th result:

Forging a vision: NASA’s Decadal Planning Team and the origins of the Vision for Space Exploration

[xcamel]

It works..

Keyword
NASA faces a critical year in 2006 to launch its next exploration ... Several lawmakers have warned President Bush in a letter that if NASA doesn't get the ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=nasa - 100k - Cached - Similar pages

NASA's science budget to tighten
NASA chief Michael Griffin told astronomers Tuesday that money for their ... "The growth of science within NASA has been in the 5- to 7-percent range, ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557104/posts - 8k - Jan 12, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

NASA Drops Requirement For Methane Engine From CEV
NASA Drops Requirement For Methane Engine From CEV · Aerospace Daily & Defense Report ^ | 01/12/06 | Frank Morring. Posted on 01/12/2006 6:50:54 PM PST by ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557118/posts - 7k - Jan 12, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

SPACE 2006: NASA Ramps Up for Moon
NASA faces a critical year in 2006 to launch its next exploration initiative ... NASA sure is ramping up. They have a vast array of models of their vehicles ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547861/posts - 24k - Cached - Similar pages

NASA's Pluto Mission Draws Three Dozen Protesters
The protesters said NASA has downplayed the worst-case scenarios in its own studies and focused on statistics that make the risk sound less dire. ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557121/posts - 23k - Jan 12, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

NASA extinguishes global-warming fire
The NASA scientist who lit the bonfire of the global warming vanities with his ... For years NASA satellites have shown no significant global warming trend. ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/621141/posts - 29k - Cached - Similar pages

NASA plans trip to Moon
Presently, NASA scientists are concentrating on Moon rather than planning a ... NASA has put forward proposals for a series of unmanned missions to moon ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1289470/posts - 42k - Cached - Similar pages

US Air Force and NASA Work Closer on Strategic Space Control
(Sept 27, 2001) NASA Urged to Join Fight Against Terrorism By Leonard David Senior ... While the technology aspects are what concern NASA and the American ...
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3bc4482d41f6.htm - 50k - Cached - Similar pages

[Brett66]

It did return one "NASA's", but do a search for "NASA's" and you'll get very different results from "NASA".

[TomGuy]

Google used to be very good for locating older FR articles.

However, I think FR now has a cgi file or similar script that prohibits Google from being able to 'index' or 'search' FR articles that are more than a few days old.

This is a detriment to FR.

Too many good threads get lost after a short while. If one tries to relocate an old thread, that becomes a difficult task, unless one remembers a specific bookmark link or keyword.

The current FR search requires that any search be more than 3 characters. That makes searching for FBI, CIA, CBS, NBC, CNN, GOP, etc., useless.

[Brett66]

In fact the search function works that way on every word, compare a search of "state" to "state's".

[willieroe]

You are correct - you'll need to use both NASA and NASA's. That's interesting.

[willieroe]

That is why apostrophe's should be banned - except, of course, for the "random plural" as I just wrote above.

[xcamel]

Try something like this also:

http://alltheweb.com/search?advanced=1&cat=web&jsact=&type=all&q=site%3Awww.freerepublic.com&itag=crv&_stype=adv&_b_query=eschelon+NEAR+clinton

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Searches are a huge performance hit on any system, I think. Unless the system is put together to build an index as articles are entered....

IBM had a mainframe package called STAIRS....which apparently has been used by others to build packages.....see this:

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Dataflight Software

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Loads an ATMS data set from IBM's STAIRS mainframe full-text database, into a Concordance database.

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I like this:

A Brief Techno-History- Flash presentation

[Petronski]

LOLOL



Martin, you been called out!

[Petronski]

Dayum.



*snort*