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I'm using Google Custom Search on a client website. They are not very happy about rival companies showing up on sponsored links on their own site. I know we can use Google Site Search but it has an annual fee. I've been looking all around for a Free/OpenSource alternative for Google CSE, but found little I can use. Anyone have any suggestions?
Check this question. What is a good search engine for embedding in a web site. IMO if the client dont want to pay for a search engine then they will have to live with the advertisements if they want a good search engine.
Google has a paid version of search. You can read about it here. We use it in our intranet.
Check out the Google JSON/AJAX Search API. It's a lightweight way of doing a query and returning pure search results that you can then display.
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/
Search is very big business right now because it is relatively immature as an industry - similar to the OS industry many years ago. Anyone with something good is going to charge for it. The open source community will only catch up when the core concepts around search stabilize and become more widely understood (and therefore reproducible). Right now much of the basics are still trade secrets.
Short answer - if you want something even remotely as good as Google, expect to pay for it.
You can block your competitors just as with AdSense, "While AdSense allows you to filter ads by URLs, you can also filter URLs from your search results within your CSE account." - https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=91652
The Austrian company Mindbreeze ( http://www.mindbreeze.com/index_en.html ) has a good alternative site search for websites.
You can test it here for free: http://www.mindbreeze.com/RegisterInSite.html
opensource alternative:
http://lucene.apache.org/
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I would like to know if there are any tool to design a layout of passbook.
I didn't find any in xcode. Experienced designer can read and write a simple json but it is much better if there are any tool help to speed up this design process.
The Pass Designer is available at http://create.passkit.com
You can use it for free to easily design and create Passes that appear in the web interface exactly as they appear in Passbook.
And with a Developer Account you can quickly build your own income stream! Details to be announced soon.
You need to understand the Passbook app, as you are limited to what you can change from Apple.
There is a Session Video called
Session 301 - Introducing Passbook, Part 1
you can see it in a web browser as well.
This will explain you the model and what can you change as types, colors, texts.
If you're only trying to find a PhotoShop file to "play around", give Takahashi Alex it's own Passbook GUI PSD a go.
I'm one of the creator of Passdock, that is exactly what you are looking for. It's a web design tool that let you create a Pass without knowing anything of the JSON structure. It's free and you can also use it to delivery the passes to the devices.
I'll be happy to help you if you have any question.
You can make passbook file via http://passsource.com .
In this site, you can test customization of passbook.
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As part of a Project I'm working on I've been instructed to implement Google News API into a Web Application.
However, I've checked the Google News API site, and I see the following message:
Important: The Google News Search API has been officially deprecated
as of May 26, 2011. It will continue to work as per our deprecation
policy, but the number of requests you may make per day may be
limited.
I've checked SO Questions but I've not been able to find a question related to the News API.
What should I use now that Google News API is redundant?
Is it the Custom Search API?
And if so, how can I make this relevant for just
News Results for a particular query for my Web Application?
I've checked the Google News RSS, but this uses HTML in the description which won't work for my requirements as I just need the text.
Depending on your needs, you want to use their section feeds, their search feeds
http://news.google.com/news?q=apple&output=rss
or Bing News Search.
http://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingdeveloper/
I'm running into the same issue with one of my own apps. So far I've found the only non-deprecated way to access Google News data is through their RSS feeds. They have a feed for each section and also a useful search function. However, these are only for noncommercial use.
As for viable alternatives I'll be trying out these two services: Feedzilla, Daylife
Looks like you might have until the end of 2013 before they officially close it down.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api/browse_thread/thread/6aaa1b3529620610/d70f8eec3684e431?lnk=gst&q=news+api#d70f8eec3684e431
Also, it sounds like they are building a replacement... but it's going to cost you.
I'd say, go to a different service. I think bing has a news API.
You might enjoy (or not) reading: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1864625
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There are good online store building solutions like Shopify, Volution, etc.
I'm looking to build my own small-scale service like that.
Are there any customizable online store building scripts I can install on my own server or companies that offer reselling opportunities?
VirtueMart is another very simple e-commerce app that my clients have used very successfully. It's based on Joomla, but still is an effective and easy tool to deploy.
I'll warn you, there's not a ton of money to be made building e-commerce "services" to resell. There's a million and one people doing it and it takes a LOT of work to get right. Not to mention the heartburn that goes along with payment processors and dealing with fouled transactions, which happens to the best of systems. People don't have a ton of patience when it comes to credit card transactions and I found myself doing tech support at the worst possible times. These are HIGH MAINTENANCE apps if you're not just doing it for yourself...
Magento has a pretty sweet multi-store setup. My company runs a fulfillment house using a single magento install and a store front for each individual client. All our orders are visible under the central dashboard and it's easy enough to create new stores once you get the hang of things.
Check it out here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/multi-store-retailing-magento-demo/
Note: Magento has a very steep learning curve, not recommended for beginners.
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What is the best wiki engine with good authorization features?
DokuWiki is a great open source PHP Wiki, clean syntax, straightforward install, simple report for read-only and private pages, plus a full ACL system, and a active community of plugin developers.
MediaWiki is amazing from a feature stand point, if you need SVG and MathML support, but I find it too hard to customize and hack on personally.
They use MoinMoin in some subjects at my uni. It has really good authorisation, controlled via simple ACLs at the top of each page. Each student submits work on pages private to them and the subject staff, so it definitely seems to work...
We use atlassian confluence it has authorization features like restricting viewing or editing of pages for groups or users. But it's a commercial product (not free)
Define "good". =)
Some would say that the original wiki script has the best authorization features in a wiki sense of the word, seeing that Ward Cunningham defined Wiki as:
The simplest online database that
could possibly work.
That said, I can share my experience with hosting Mediawiki sites and that is that I often find that I would like to be able to define privileges on a group/page and group/section kind of way. But it always depends on the application. I use UseModWiki for robowiki.net and it works excellently even though it has the most rudimentary authorization system (next after the original wiki script then).
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Is there a tool to automatically search through my site and test all the links? I hate running across bad urls.
Xenu link sleuth is excellent (and free)
w3.org checklink
If I were you, I'd check out the W3C Link Checker.
Something like this should work: http://www.dead-links.com/
Do google searches for "404 checker" or "broken link checker"
I used Xenu's Link Sleuth in the past. It will crawl your site and tell you which links point to nowhere. It is not super fancy but it works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu%27s_Link_Sleuth
The Wikipedia page lists a whole bunch of other products.
WebHTTrack
Can take a long time to go through a large web site (I archived a 250MB website and it took approximately 2 hours - it wasn't local though) It has a log so you should be able to track 404s easily.
Also check out Google's webmaster tools.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
They give you the ability to see the 404's that GoogleBot discovers when crawling your website (along with lots and lots of other stuff).