Haken FFFs.net search implemented - please snag it
POSTED BY: SigmaNunki
UPDATED: Sunday, July 22, 2007 21:58
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Ok, so I've been promoting the idea that people should search this site using Google for a while now. But, people don't. I don't know why, but they just refuse to search the site even though I've (and others) posted several time how.
So, it's time for me to put my money where my mouth is (so to say). I've know for a while (along with many others) that people can plug into Google by putting up a form on their site to use Google. This is what I've done.
The thing is that I'm not leaving it up for long. My little personal pipe just won't be capable of serving the pages given the traffic FFFs.net gets.
What I am putting it up for, is so Haken can snag the html and add a page on FFFs.net. This would give people the ability to search FFFs.net from FFFs.net using Google.
http://www.fireflylabs.ca/misc/fffsearch.html
Haken, please see the linked page for further notes on additional customization if wanted.
Have a shiny day 
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Shiny idea!!! Thanks!
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am using it now
Cant Stop The Signal
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I always use google (with "site:fireflyfans.net") to search FFF.net, but I agree it would be nice if there were a google site search box on the front page.
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@Shiny:
bump
Pretty much my thoughts as well.
It really would be trivial to implement it here. As in, click link, open page source, copy the html and put it in a page here. Or make a search page and slap in the html into the content part of the page (though the background colour is probably going to have to be changed from #FFFFFF to #000000). It took me 10-15 min to do the leg work and make my page. So, I imagine it'd take 5-10 min for Haken to tak it onto this site.
That is, if he doesn't want to do the customed part. If so, that'd take a bit longer.
But people are using it. So...
Funny store, this one guy a while ago (?) asked about a thread that had a link to where he could buy Bluesun t-shirts. He said he couldn't find it in the archives. So, I told him about the site:fireflyfans.net at Google so that he could look himself and for any other things in the future.
You know, give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish...
His response was (paraphrase), "Or you could just tell me where it is" and didn't do the search. The rest of the post basically told me that he was rather irritated that I didn't tell him specifically where it was.
That rather irritated me. So much for actually helping people.
At any rate, people obviously need this, they have voiced a disire to have it in the past, and people are using it.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
You know, give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish...
I prefer Terry Pratchett's version:
Build a man a fire, he is warm for a night. Set a man on fire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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Bein' new, not only to the online FF/S world, but online communities in general, this is great news to me. I'm a very proficient Googler but never did it specifically for FFF.net. Bravo!
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Originally posted by SimonWho:Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
You know, give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish...
I prefer Terry Pratchett's version:
Build a man a fire, he is warm for a night. Set a man on fire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
LOL, that's great!
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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
Bein' new, not only to the online FF/S world, but online communities in general, this is great news to me. I'm a very proficient Googler but never did it specifically for FFF.net. Bravo!
Thanks
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Shiney idea, didn't know u could do that, do now. I love this place.
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o we all love this place but i have a question. actually 2.
1: have any of the cast besides summer (GO SUMMER) and Nathan (ROCK ON MAN U SO TOTALY RULE) had any work since this and if so wat and if not why u think so?
also im trying to contact Joss with a buisness proposition and I figur this would be the best place to find his email so .... yah if any ones it contact me.
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