I didn't know where else to post this, but today I put together a custom search engine, compiling a bunch of different speedcubing sites, among them speedsolving.com, speedcubing.com, WCA website, as well as the websites of Erik Akkersdijk, Joel van Noort, Lucas Garron, Stefan Pochmann, Macky, etc. (I wanted to put in Nakajima's site, Cutex, but I think the domain name for that expired...?)
here's the link to PuzzleSearch: http://puzzlesearch-swicki.eurekster.com/
I compiled all the sites I know well, I know there are so many but I included the big ones for now. I plan to add more later.
However, a bit of the results might be irrelevant, for example don't just type in "silicone spray", it's probably better to say "silicone spray rubik's cube" or something like that so that you don't get stuff advertising Jig-a-Loo and how great it oils gates or something.
I'm still working out the kinks and stuff, I have a limit to only 50 sites (which sucks), maybe I'll switch hosts sometime. But for the time being, I think this is suitable. I think I have between 30-40 sites compiled now, so only a bit more. However, it automatically has some more sites with the relevant stuff, so in theory it can hold more than just 50 sites in the engine.
If you have any suggestions as to what other sites that I might have looked over (I didn't actually give you the full list here, but you can tell me anyway), then just let me know, I'll check it out and add it to the list.
So please tell me what you think of PuzzleSearch as of now, that's where you go to get your custom puzzle searches!
Oh also, I understand that Tristan Wright (Thrawst, thesixsides.com - check it out, he's awesome) used to have something similar to this called SquareSearch and no doubt that that was a lot better than PuzzleSearch, I didn't realize that until after I made this, but oh well.
So yeah. Check it out & let me know what you think!
here's the link to PuzzleSearch: http://puzzlesearch-swicki.eurekster.com/
I compiled all the sites I know well, I know there are so many but I included the big ones for now. I plan to add more later.
However, a bit of the results might be irrelevant, for example don't just type in "silicone spray", it's probably better to say "silicone spray rubik's cube" or something like that so that you don't get stuff advertising Jig-a-Loo and how great it oils gates or something.
I'm still working out the kinks and stuff, I have a limit to only 50 sites (which sucks), maybe I'll switch hosts sometime. But for the time being, I think this is suitable. I think I have between 30-40 sites compiled now, so only a bit more. However, it automatically has some more sites with the relevant stuff, so in theory it can hold more than just 50 sites in the engine.
If you have any suggestions as to what other sites that I might have looked over (I didn't actually give you the full list here, but you can tell me anyway), then just let me know, I'll check it out and add it to the list.
So please tell me what you think of PuzzleSearch as of now, that's where you go to get your custom puzzle searches!
Oh also, I understand that Tristan Wright (Thrawst, thesixsides.com - check it out, he's awesome) used to have something similar to this called SquareSearch and no doubt that that was a lot better than PuzzleSearch, I didn't realize that until after I made this, but oh well.
So yeah. Check it out & let me know what you think!
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