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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.

It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.

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February 12, 2009

Whoosh

Pure Python search engine. Might be just the ticket for fixing the groovymother.com search box, which has been busted for six months!

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December 10, 2008

ack -- better than grep

Why am I only finding this now? A smart replacement for the “find . | xargs grep” recipe I use on a daily basis.

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September 3, 2008

PleaseDressMe

A t-shirt search engine. Limited to a small number of vendors currently (Threadless, Busted Tees, et al), but hopefully will expand to some new sources.

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July 31, 2008

Political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology

Google has a first stab at making video content searchable, across a selection of political speeches. Will be interesting to see how well this works.

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March 11, 2008

compfight

Really nice Flickr search tool. Gives you a great at-a-glance thumbnail view.

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September 9, 2007

April 24, 2007

Yahoo! Music - Lyrics

Yahoo’s made a bunch of song lyrics legitimately available for searching. Nice, and all, but it’s still easier to google for “song title lyrics”.

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January 4, 2007

The Xapian Project

Open-source C search engine. I still prefer Lucene, but PyLucene is notoriously flakey under mod_python, so I’m using XapWrap to power the groovymother search.

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August 15, 2006

MT Hacks FastSearch

The shitty search built into MovableType has been hammering my server. Hopefully this’ll be a decent drop-in replacement.

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May 16, 2006

Flickr: Advanced Photo Search

Best feature of the Flickr “Gamma”? Proper fulltext search functionality, including Creative Commons searching. Huzzah!

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May 15, 2006

Snap

Snap (the olde Idealab search site) has relaunched. It’s an endearingly different approach, and good for browsing, but I imagine it’s be a PITA when doing in-depth technical searches.

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May 6, 2006

Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots

Visualizations on how Yahoo, Google and MSN (and comment spam bots) spider through content.

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February 21, 2006

codefetch{

Search engine for the code samples made available for download by programming book publishers.

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January 3, 2006

retrievr - search by sketch

Crudely sketch something, and find photos on Flickr that resemble it.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.