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		<title>New SL Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katharine Berry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Second Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["object"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found it at the obvious place on their site (after a couple of guesses), and it uses the same URL structure as Google after that, making searches easy. Having poked around with it, I have noticed the following &#8211; based on the incomplete version that I found on their site: It looks good Classifieds [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found it at the obvious place on their site (after a couple of guesses), and it uses the same URL structure as Google after that, making searches easy.</p>
<p>Having poked around with it, I have noticed the following &#8211; based on the <em><strong>incomplete</strong></em> version that I found on their site:</p>
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<li>It looks good</li>
<li>Classifieds are integrated neatly into the system</li>
<li>A good chunk of the data is hosted on Amazon S3 &#8211; profiles, events, places, top traffic sites, etc.</li>
<li>The TG and MG are in separate S3 buckets</li>
<li>It appears to use new secondlife:// features &#8211; specifically, secondlife://app/event/*/about, secondlife://app/classified/*, secondlife://app/agent/*/about. Visiting these with the RC client open made it crash. That said, clicking most buttons made it crash, so that&#8217;s not saying much.</li>
<li>Teen Grid and Main Grid results are not separated. I assume that this will change, given the separation of their data.</li>
<li>It searches wiki.secondlife.com.</li>
<li>A good deal of the data isn&#8217;t on S3 yet, so many links just tell you the key couldn&#8217;t be found.</li>
<li>Main Grid profiles default to visible, but Teen Grid profiles default to hidden.</li>
<li>Parcels have a list of searchable objects on them along with their prices, arranged in alphabetical order. Their parcel image is also visible.</li>
<li>Boolean operators such as &#8220;NOT&#8221; work as expected.</li>
<li>The search does not apply to the owner of something &#8211; e.g. a search for &#8220;Alex NOT Harbinger&#8221; still returns things <em>owned</em> by Alex Harbinger.</li>
<li>You can now grab limited resolution textures off the web at http://secondlife.com/app/image/texture-key/2 &#8211; this is used by the search to provide images.</li>
<li>The popular places lists, which appear in search (but probably shouldn&#8217;t), show sandboxes that are hidden from popular places in the current system.</li>
<li>Objects that aren&#8217;t for sale tend to appear in the object listings. Oops?</li>
<li>Avatar names tend to be just &#8220;(waiting)&#8221;, although the profiles they link to are accurate. I have yet to find any marked as &#8220;(hippos)&#8221;, however. <img src='http://kathar.in/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
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<p>Also, lots of people seem to have expensive objects called &#8220;Object&#8221; for sale. It&#8217;d be nice if those were filtered out. The information seems to be fairly up-to-date, but is definitely slower at updating than the in-world stuff.</p>
<p>Of course, this is presumably supposed to be unreleased, so it could all change at whatever time. Still fun to look through though. And it actually looks like it&#8217;s a significant improvement over what we have now, woo.</p>
<p>Just need some way of separating out the MG and TG results. I suspect that LL will achieve this by locking searches to one of the two buckets depending on which grid you use.</p>
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<td><a href='http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/picture-8.png' title='Classified'><img src='http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/picture-8.thumbnail.png' alt='Classified' /></a></td>
<td><a href='http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/picture-6.png' title='A parcel listing'><img src='http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/picture-6.thumbnail.png' alt='A parcel listing' /></a></td>
<td><a href='http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/picture-7.png' title='Avatar Profile'><img src='http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/picture-7.thumbnail.png' alt='Avatar Profile' /></a></td>
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<td><a href='http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/picture-10.png' title='Search results for “Scripting” - page 4'><img src='http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/picture-10.thumbnail.png' alt='Search results for “Scripting” - page 4' /></a></td>
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<td><a href='http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/picture-5.png' title='An event listing'><img src='http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/picture-5.thumbnail.png' alt='An event listing' /></a></td>
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