{"id":740,"date":"2008-10-13T09:49:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T13:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2008-10-13T09:51:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T13:51:49","slug":"search-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Search Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across this new search engine, Search Me<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s visual-based, allowing you to see the site that relates to what you’re searching for.<\/p>\n

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For example, when I search on my name, the first site that comes up is my personal site (which is good).\u00a0 As I scroll through, I find all kinds of things — like an old interview of me done more than 10 years ago! — and\u00a0 some pages that have nothing to do with me (my name is so common!).<\/p>\n

If you’re a Mac user, you’ll see that the view is nearly identical to that “Cover Flow” view in the Leopard OS.<\/p>\n

Under the Preferences, you can do things like create a “day theme” which makes the background white rather than the “night theme”\u00a0 (the default) which makes the background black.<\/p>\n

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You can also select “searchme lite” which gives a vertical column of pages with a white background.<\/p>\n

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The program allows the creation of “stacks” — kind of like bookmarks, but visual.\u00a0 To use stacks, first create a stack name.\u00a0 Then, each time you find a page that you’d like to save into a particular stack, you drag the page and drop it into that stack.\u00a0 Then, the next time you’re on the site, you can look at your stack to see what’s updated on those pages.\u00a0 Search Me provides some stacks.\u00a0 Being a news junkie, I loaded up the News stack, which includes 13 news sites.\u00a0 There are other news sites that I like checking out.\u00a0 To add them, I opened each and then dragged and dropped each page directly onto the stack.\u00a0 The stack tools section includes the ability to email the stacks, share them, and so on.\u00a0 There is also video tutorials on the site explaining how to create and use stacks.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the “news”\u00a0 stack which I copies from their example stacks.\u00a0 (Caveat: the stack was working when I added it.\u00a0 If you don’t see it, first give it a chance to load, then check to see if you have a Flash plugin, finally let me know as it’s posible that they changed the code.)\u00a0\u00a0 Under the “share” link in the Stacks section, there is an option to share to a blog, which is what I did here. There is information on their site on how to do this (basically grabbing the HTML code and putting it directly into the source of your blog page).<\/p>\n

Important to note: The site is BETA, and it requires Flash.\u00a0 That means that while most of it works, it’s still int the testing phase and is a bit buggy.\u00a0 Also important to note, if you clear your Flash cache, you will lose your stacks.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s a workaround:\u00a0 (1) Email the stack to yourself; (2) open the email and click the link to see the stack in your Searchme browser window; (3) click the copy link within site to save it to your stack. A caveat:\u00a0 I do not know how long the email link is good for.\u00a0 For this reason, save any favorites the “old fashioned way” — in your bookmarks folder!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across this new search engine, Search Me.\u00a0 It’s visual-based, allowing you to see the site that relates to what you’re searching for. For example, when I search on my name, the first site that comes up is my personal site (which is good).\u00a0 As I scroll through, I find all kinds of things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}