Comments on: BJAX: Using a Bookmarklet to Rerank Google Search Results http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/01/bjax-using-a-bo/ Running commentary about agile development, user experience design and Ajax. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:33:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alexandre Plennevaux http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/01/bjax-using-a-bo/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Alexandre Plennevaux Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:58:09 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=109#comment-130 <p>Wow, i find this meta layer on top of google super interesting: if you do such firefox extension, i'll definitely jump in, test and provide feedback.<br /> </p> Wow, i find this meta layer on top of google super interesting: if you do such firefox extension, i’ll definitely jump in, test and provide feedback.

]]> By: Lukas http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/01/bjax-using-a-bo/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Lukas Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:12:41 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=109#comment-129 <p>Yeah, this is also what I thought was the way to go. Extension probably more so than Greasemonkey. Actually has anyone done a combination of the two? The Extension installs a Greasemonkey script for the core logic, so that it is easily editable, but you still get the nice update notification functionality from the Extension (though it should notice updates, drop a copy of the new version in a new file so that it can be manually merged).</p> Yeah, this is also what I thought was the way to go. Extension probably more so than Greasemonkey. Actually has anyone done a combination of the two? The Extension installs a Greasemonkey script for the core logic, so that it is easily editable, but you still get the nice update notification functionality from the Extension (though it should notice updates, drop a copy of the new version in a new file so that it can be manually merged).

]]> By: Jarett http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/01/bjax-using-a-bo/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Jarett Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:14:28 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=109#comment-128 <p>Have you thought about making it into a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey script? That way del.icio.us wouldn't throttle your usage, since the requests would all be coming from the computer running the browser instead of a backend server.</p> Have you thought about making it into a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey script? That way del.icio.us wouldn’t throttle your usage, since the requests would all be coming from the computer running the browser instead of a backend server.

]]> By: Lukas http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/01/bjax-using-a-bo/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Lukas Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:10:55 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=109#comment-127 <p>This is pretty cool. I have also been pondering on how to tweak Google search results. Personally I was focusing on the annoyance of getting duplicate results.</p> <p>For example I search for something that appears on the PHP documentation, then I end up with multiple copies of the PHP manual. Wouldn't it be cool if Google would actually figure out that all these duplicate sites just differentiate from each other based on the navigation and maybe an ad banner. I guess they could do this by comparing some other pages on the site. Then instead of multiple entries with the PHP manual, they could just present the content once with a list of available sites next to that.</p> <p>Another annoyance is duplication of blog entries. Some people just blindly copy, others add commentary. Ideally Google would figure out the original source and again just list the places giving plain copies. But for those people adding commentary, it would be cool if the commentary would be available in a sidebar that makes it clear which paragraphs are being talked about in the given commentary.</p> <p>These two things should also be somewhat possible to realize with a meta frontent to Google.</p> <p>Aside from that I have also been pondering how to better integrate social networking into the mix. The issue I see is that people can also try to bomb those. Furthermore its hard to find the people that actually know something in a social network. Just going by number of connections is kind of hard, since most social networks do not make it clear who "begged" to get connected and who is getting constantly "begged" to connect.</p> This is pretty cool. I have also been pondering on how to tweak Google search results. Personally I was focusing on the annoyance of getting duplicate results.

For example I search for something that appears on the PHP documentation, then I end up with multiple copies of the PHP manual. Wouldn’t it be cool if Google would actually figure out that all these duplicate sites just differentiate from each other based on the navigation and maybe an ad banner. I guess they could do this by comparing some other pages on the site. Then instead of multiple entries with the PHP manual, they could just present the content once with a list of available sites next to that.

Another annoyance is duplication of blog entries. Some people just blindly copy, others add commentary. Ideally Google would figure out the original source and again just list the places giving plain copies. But for those people adding commentary, it would be cool if the commentary would be available in a sidebar that makes it clear which paragraphs are being talked about in the given commentary.

These two things should also be somewhat possible to realize with a meta frontent to Google.

Aside from that I have also been pondering how to better integrate social networking into the mix. The issue I see is that people can also try to bomb those. Furthermore its hard to find the people that actually know something in a social network. Just going by number of connections is kind of hard, since most social networks do not make it clear who “begged” to get connected and who is getting constantly “begged” to connect.

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