Thursday, February 3, 2005

Google suggest #

Google Suggest is a really intersting beta service which, in real-time, offers suggested keywords as you type. The demo spawned a lot of interesting dissections of the work: Chris Justus - Server Side Guy: Google Suggest Dissected... Slashdot | Google Suggest Dissected http://allinthehead.com/retro/241/xmlhttprequest-for-the-masses online.effbot.org PyGoogleSuggest-en - tokuhirom's homepage I will take a closer look if I am ever concretely implementing a keyword suggestion system or am looking into how to connect web services into my webpages. I wonder whether anyone can make use of the keyword system in google. I would guess not.   Posted by Raymond Yee on 2/3/05; 4:00:21 PM from the Unclassified dept. Discuss

Curse the spammers #

Argh. I will need to deal more intelligently with wiki spam after being hit by a lot of spam last night. I've had a primitive strategy of manually cleaning up spam, combined with manually blocking offending IP addresses, but that strategy will not be sufficient to handle these more aggressive spammers. More later on this topic for sure. I was considering letting only myself edit this wiki and was strengthened in that resolve when yet another person wrote to my wiki yesterday morning. Only this time, it turned out to be a useful update on EduSource. This one correction restored my faith in wikidom and makes me want to keep, if at all practical, the open editing of my wiki. That means, probably, the need for superior clean-up facilities after a spam attack.   Posted by Raymond Yee on 2/3/05; 11:36:23 AM from the Unclassified dept. Discuss