WhatiSS is not available for a while

WhatiSS is a question answer search engine making use of Yahoo BOSS. Now Yahoo added pricing policy for their search results, changed their API and even limited the max number of search results to 50.

I built this for fun after leaving my first job. The site won Windows Azure DataMarket contest.

WhatiSS was initially a custom search engine for QA sites. Later added some contextual ranking, removing in-appropriate links, also added TrueKnowledge, WolframAlpha API's.

I shut down the site on August last year after discovered that the top results are misleading or completely wrong according to some search queries. I found that the answers posted in certain qna sites are completely wrong, which lead to shut down.

The site is down for the last few months. I also have another idea about WhaiSS. For the time being i am taking down the site.

Thank you Lord Jesus Christ.

Linkedin April Fool

Today is April 1 and what Linkedin is recommending.

Einstein, John Watson. Well i know i been April Fooled.But okei , so everybody out there take it as a joke.

Save all tabs in Firefox 4 ?

Where is the save all tabs feature in Firefox 4 ?

I dont want to waste your time, that feature is available in Firefox 4 and disabled by default.

How to enable it

type about:config in the URL field in Firefox and type Enter.Proceed by clicking on button 'I'll be careful.

There you find a textbox 'Filter:' in the window.Now type 'browser.showQuitWarning' in the textbox and press enter.

You can see it is set to false by default.Right click and Toggle it.

Now that feature is ready, so now you can save all the tabs in your browsing session and continue with it when you open Firefox next time.

[you might find the article dead simple, targeted towards no-techies too]

Happy browsing.God bless you

WhatiSS on a roll

Hope some of you already came to know from the home page itself that the site is on a roll.Our core search feature is not up-to the mark and our users are complaining about in-accurate answers [pretty much negative and false based] for the questions they are searching for.So we thought of going for a new change.

We thought of building a kb that stores fact which will make use of meta-data.But there are limitations.We will certainly look into such an option to make sure that the answers we found while crawling is true,which doesn't require any human intervention.

But sometimes truth is even represented as false.Like the 2012 prophecy,it is really a false thing.But a lot of qa sites where people argue and answer with lot of fake,false facts.Even Wikipedia got an article about the phenomenon.

So how would we counter such an issue.The only way is we need to write true facts our own.

When people search for such thing we have to notify them - you are searching for a question/face that don't exist or the answers you will get will be wrong because you are searching for something which is wrong or something which doesn't exist.

The question search engine we build using BOSS done a good job in finding the answers to similar questions that is being asked,answered before.But the ultimate aim of the product is to lead the users to sites for correct/accurate answers.

But we are unable to provide the accuracy of the answers.Well we found people used to post fake,false things that doesn't exists or completely wrong and hence we thought of going on a roll for an interesting change.

Lets wait for the new WhatiSS

More BHP with MVC

ASP.NET is where i started web development for my academic project.Well its something cool at that time because the learning curve is pretty steep.

However at some point,one may ask for more 'power to you' because of the limitations.And thereafter searching for new and better alternates - PHP,RoR,Java etc..But nothing works for me as ASP.NET.all are bad world for me.

I like ASP.NET WebForms,But limitations is something i don't want.i try to use custom controls which is somewhat manageable.

But then came the MVC-the most customizable one ever from MS.Things changed.[know a little via Struts] and now i really got that additional BHP i am asking for 'Power to you'.But still i need more..,may be it will mature with time.

Its pretty interesting to work with MVC.Our Basics comes to the rescue most of the times.

I rem the days ,my PL doesn't allow me to hack much more.Well that's the reason why i like MVC more than ever.

Just like you n me,i too asked 'which one is better - Web Forms or MVC'.So its all about BHP.

Google Search Q&A

Google added a new search engine option to filter only Q&A sites.It is such a great feature from Google as the search company is not leaving a little space for competition.

The new feature will be really worthy if one is only looking for answers from Q&A sites.

Latest firefox 3.5.3 [slow ,problem loading page]

Hello

this is a surprise - the latest firefox (3.5.3) is behaving like never before and it feels like we're using dial up.Isn't it.

Firefox -Problem loading the page

Its so painful,i found some of the users switched to older version.( like Windows XP)

This is a work around to avoid page loading problem.

type about:config in your url field and click on button 'I'll be Careful'
Right click and choose New -> Boolean
type network.dns.disablePrefetch and then click OK
choose true, click OK

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[edited for the easiness for less techies]

Also my jquery script stopped working in 3.5.3

this is the script

$("input[name='country'][type='checkbox'][checked='true']");

and i replaced it with

$("input[name='country'][@type='checkbox'][checked='true']");



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