Ujiko

[francis]

A colleague mailed me with a new(?) search engine that he'd found: Ujiko (http://www.ujiko.com/) which, according to the page title, is a "profiling seardch engine allowing customization of results). After a few minutes playing, I can't decide weather I like it or not.

It's Flash based (-1), it opens all links in a new window (which, because it's Flash based, is impossible to overcome - I usually open all my search results in new tabs so my search engine results page is always available, so -10). It's got some folders (green folders, purple folders) with no obvious description of what they're for and clicking on them takes you to a blank page. Hit the back button and, because the developers haven't used Flash properly, you go to your last HTML page and not your search results (-5) Search history (+1) hidden away under an icon of a clock (-1). All the help pages open in un-overcomeable new windows (-10).

Search results:

metal sludge: Google: number 1 (248,000 results) Ujiko: 4 (64,500)
daily report: Google: number 1 (9,310,000 results), Ujiko: 27 (6,640,000)
cadtutor: Google: number 1 (1,890 results), Ujiko: 1 (309)

This last search brought back www.watson.u-net.com which Google doesn't seem to. Also, according to the above site, today is "Wednesday 9th June 104" - I'll be on the look out for Romans on the way to work!

Pah - don't like it!

[David]

Originally posted by francis@Jun 9 2004, 7:20 am
This last search brought back www.watson.u-net.com which Google doesn't seem to. Also, according to the above site, today is "Wednesday 9th June 104" - I'll be on the look out for Romans on the way to work!

Oh, the shame of it. How old websites come back to haunt. This one will be disappearing into the archives shortly but the JavaScript date is an interesting point. If you view the page in IE, the year is correctly displayed as 2004 but in Moz it displays as 104.

// Copyright © 1997 David Watson. All rights reserved.
// You may use this script provided that this copyright
// notice remains as is.

function makeDays() {
this[0]="Sunday"; this[1]="Monday"; this[2]="Tuesday"; this[3]="Wednesday";
this[4]="Thursday"; this[5]="Friday"; this[6]="Saturday";
this.length=7; }

function makeMonths() {
this[0]="January"; this[1]="February"; this[2]="March"; this[3]="April";
this[4]="May"; this[5]="June"; this[6]="July"; this[7]="August";
this[8]="September"; this[9]="October"; this[10]="November"; this[11]="December";
this.length=12; }

function makeNths() {
this[1]="st"; this[2]="nd"; this[3]="rd"; this[4]="th"; this[5]="th"; this[6]="th";
this[7]="th"; this[8]="th"; this[9]="th"; this[10]="th"; this[11]="th"; this[12]="th";
this[13]="th"; this[14]="th"; this[15]="th"; this[16]="th"; this[17]="th";
this[18]="th"; this[19]="th"; this[20]="th"; this[21]="st"; this[22]="nd";
this[23]="rd"; this[24]="th"; this[25]="th"; this[26]="th"; this[27]="th";
this[28]="th"; this[29]="th"; this[30]="th"; this[31]="st";
this.length=31; }

darr = new makeDays(); marr = new makeMonths(); narr = new makeNths(); now = new Date();

document.writeln(darr[now.getDay()] + " " + now.getDate()
+ "<FONT size=3><SUP>" + narr[now.getDate()] + "</SUP></FONT>" + " " + marr[now.getMonth()]
+ " " + now.getYear());

I guess a few things have happened since 1997 - the millennium for example :rolleyes:

To correct the above problem, simply replace now.getYear with now.getFullYear

Sorry about those <font> tags - well it was written 7 years ago. Yes Francis, I know but...

Another example of IE being more forgiving and Moz being a stickler :)