Experiments

We’re back. Problems have been plaguing our servers the past few days, so we didn’t get to post new articles. Meanwhile, our laboratory has been busy reworking our frankenstein creation, the feeds digest and giving it a new bride. Many thanks to those who have pitched in their suggestions which, we’ve taken into consideration when reworking the Zhongg Feeds Digest.

The feed url has been changed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/MalaysiaTech. To those who have subscribed to the earlier feed, the old feed will redirect to the new one, no worries :). We’ve hooked up with feedburner to provide better compatibility and statistics. The rest of the fixes are rather minor, best that y’all give it a go to see them changes.

Following the 31 Malaysian Tech Blogs post, we wondered if there’s a way to view all the blogs’ feed as one instead of subscribing to 31 feeds. Long story short, here’s our Frankenstein creation :

Zhongg Feed Digest
URI is at: http://www.zhongg.com/scraper.php http://feeds.feedburner.com/MalaysiaTech

(subscribe to the feed to have a look)

Got the crazy idea of searching the word ’search’ on 6 popular search engine for kicks. What I found out was quite interesting. Through the pointless research I found out that Live Search actually determines your country of origin by the browser language instead of your IP (like Google). Worse, the results are tuned to your supposedly country of origin whether or not you choose it. To switch to the default version, change the language setting to ‘English US’.

Anyway, here are the search engines in alphabetical order along with their top 10 results. Comments and points are given based on the results returned for the word ’search’ so it might not accurately reflect the actual state of the engines.

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