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Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

Monday, July 23, 2007
16 years ago4,174 views

I noticed you used the old domain for Blogoscoped in your API search. How is the migration over to the new site going in terms of Google's Index?

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Soon after the move it was 25% blogoscoped.com, 75% blog.outer-court.com. Over time, more and more from the new site was taken in replacement of the old domain, and now it's somewhat stuck to 75% blogoscoped.com and 25% blog.outer-court.com. However, the image index speed is apparently completely different, because blogoscoped.com is still at 0% there!

pooin [PersonRank 8]

16 years ago #

wow, image results are changing! in three hours ajax search give us different results. Top three maintain position

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It's weird how if you hit the X next to the search button it gets rid of the search results and clears the search box. But why can't it also let go of the screen space for where the search results would go. Instead it lives a giant block of empty space.

Hong Xiaowan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I really did not like Google JS API, Also I do not like AJAX.

I once suggested keep SOAP. Limited account for free. Nolimited account for Google Adsensed Site.

Mark Lucovsky [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

Colin, The spacing is a function of how this site choose to use the API:

He is defining a fixed size region thats dedicated to holding a search control

   #searchControl {
   height: 560px;
   width: 500px;
   overflow: hidden;
   }

Here is another sample that demonstrates how the space is reclaimed:

http://www.google.com/uds/samples/apidocs/image.html

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Thanks for the explanation Mark!

Martin [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

> For instance, when you leave the page and then hit the back button,
> your last search query isn't visible anymore.

It is for me. I am using Opera. Firefox, IE et al don't do it?

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I inserted a (quick n dirty) fixed spacing because the <div> as provided by Google's sample wouldn't auto-adjust its height... so it was overlaying the footer of the page with its results! I guess there's a better fix using CSS/ JS for that?

Hong Xiaowan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I deleted height and width, so got auto height and width

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