foyleman

I found a pretty cool search engine today… and no, I didn’t make it (askfoyle.com). lol. I mentioned to my buddy this morning that I did some preliminary coding of a search engine to see what I could do (perhaps more on that in the future), and he showed me this: Searchme

What’s cool about this search system is that rather than returning many text links like I’m used to seeing in Google, MSN, or whatever it is I (you) normally use to search, I see a screenshots of the website. This is no tiny little image leaving me to guess at what the site really could look like. It’s a fairly large representation of the site that I can somewhat read. Wait a few seconds longer after my search and my keywords will be circled within those images. Scroll through the resulting images like a jukebox to find what I’m looking for.

And… the whole thing appears to be presented using Flash. Yeah, a flash coded search engine. That’s not normal.

It’s currently in beta, but it still returns the results I was looking for. Oh, and it’s not kicking MODSonline out of the search like Google started doing to me this past weekend (unless you search for modsonline.com).

Follow-up: Go figure, Google has taken me back. What did I do to fix it? Nothing. lol.

I know. It’s been a while since I last posted here. For those who don’t know, I have a part-time job as a personal accountant. In the US, that means I have to work like a crazy fool a lot between mid February and April 15th. I’m sitting here at my desk between outbursts of profanity phone calls taking a short break. Yup, typing here is what I would rather be doing, so it’s a break from the insane work schedule.

This job as an accountant wouldn’t be so bad if was my only job.. or even if it was my second job. However this one fits in as my second or third or maybe forth. What other jobs do I have?

• First we have Tres Media Group Inc. There I handle the web department, handling clients and programming websites. While we actually do a lot more than just websites, that’s my primary focus. Like this past week I had to figure out why the state courts confused my company with another company of the same name registered in a different state. It took a lot of yelling over the phone convincing that there could be another Tres Inc residing in NJ but registered in NY. Thus, the new company name mentioned at the start of this bullet.
• Next on the list is MODSonline.com. While it’s not technically a job because of the pay (which is $0), it is a job in that it is a registered business (MODSonline LLC) and that I regularly manage its business. The community helps to manage the forums, news and other areas which makes it all worth the salary.
• Accounting fits on the list here. The job is really only 3 months of the year, but it’s a full-time job. This puts my work week at over 80 hours per week. That’s why I am going frickin’ nuts stressing a bit at this time.
• Not exactly a real job just yet, I am also a partner in a new business. A game development company called Mission Critical Studios. We are working on our first game. Once this tax thing is over, I will be putting quite a bit more time into this game’s actual development. Up until now, it’s all been meetings, planning and script writing.

Of course, I am not really complaining that I have too many jobs. I like to work. I feel like its a good exercise of the mind and makes me feel like a productive member of society. Otherwise what I would I do? Oh right, I would stress less. hehe.