[Search-l] Widgets

[Mark (Markie)]

hmmm we could do but then we would be using more google resources (evil) but
would then get free results (good), so we have to balance that up.  i know
there was some open source kit somewhere, that did geolocation by ip and JS
calls etc, but i cant remember where/what it was.  will have to see if i can
dig it up again

regards

mark

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Aerik Sylvan <aerik at thesylvans.com> wrote:

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>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Mark (Markie) <newsmarkie at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I know i havent been to active round here recently (been really busy,
>> sorry :-( ) but one thing that i have noticed on the mailing lists that
>> really interested me is the widgets ideas.  IMO these are really key things
>> that, shouldnt :-p, be too hard to implement. Ive had a brief look at one of
>> the widgets which i look for alot, which is weather (although i dont know
>> why, it always seems to be rain :-p)
>>
>> NWS / NOAA provide an XML output of weather for all US cities and most
>> international cities, and with it being a US gov org all its content is
>> therefore PD and totally free to use and copy etc (not a lawyer though).
>> this we could then implement easily using a JS call from the search var,
>> with or without looking for a "weather: XXX" keyword and then output next to
>> the search results, maybe below the adverts.  this could also be JS
>> implemented to be hide able etc with more widgets....... the problem with
>> NOAA IMO is that it requires calls to use lat/long co-ordinates for the
>> calls, thus required more geo-location stuff which makes this harder and
>> harder.
>>
>
> Hmm... couldn't you use a Google Maps API call (JS) to get the lat lang,
> then call the NOAA feed?  I haven't looked at the NOAA feed at all, but...
> Then we cache the lat/lang in a cookie or something, to avoid a gazillion
> calls.  Might be a little tricky with pure javascript, if the NOAA feed is
> only xml and not JSON, but...
>
> Aerik
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