Delicious.com [Quietly] Rolls Out Domain And Url Searching/Filtering. Finally!

Artem Russakovskii — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:15:00 +0000

Introduction

I love Delicious. It allows me to store my bookmarks, tag and search them, and, best of all, have access to them from anywhere on the web.

Searching bookmarks by keyword is easy – just enter a bunch of keywords into the search page and off you go but what if you want to confine your results to a certain domain? The main reason I wanted to do it personally is so that I could see all pages of my site bookmarked by Delicious users and the corresponding number of bookmarks. However, the only url based search Delicious offered was a full url lookup:

This search is very limited – it accepts only a full url to the page in question.

Such limitations were unacceptable and prompted me to file a suggestion/idea on the Delicious forum earlier this year to allow searching for *all* bookmarks in a given domain. To my pleasant surprise, Delicious rolled out these new search features within the last month (very quietly for some reason, are they in alpha?). There was no mention of them on their blog or anywhere else on the web really.

So how does the new search/filter work?

Check it out:

site:yoursite.com allows searching by domain

For example, site:beerpla.net currently returns 104 results and I can see all of my sites' pages and their bookmark numbers on a single page:

Moreover, you can combine the site: query with tags

Like so: site:beerpla.net hidden php to filter the results further.

You can also search part of a url using the url: construct

For example, url:beerpla.net/2009/ finds bookmarked blog posts from 2009 only:

I'm not really sure why one would use site: if they could just use url: – it seems like the latter can do everything the former can do and more. Perhaps Delicious can clarify that.

Also, doing something like url:hidden-features-of doesn't bring back any results, even though I thought url: is supposed to search parts of the url. A bug or a feature?

Conclusion

Thanks to Delicious for following through with the search improvements and listening to your users. Special thanks to Delicious's own britta for being on top of things and responding to an 8 month old forum post.

Now perhaps someone will write a plugin to figure out the TOTAL number of bookmarks for a specific domain or modify an existing one (*cough*, ImprovingTheWeb, *cough*)?

Fun With The Kill-A-Watt

Artem Russakovskii — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:00:28 +0000

If you haven't heard yet, there's a cool useful little device that you can buy for about $20, called the Kill-A-Watt. You plug it into the power outlet, then plug something into it and observe various fun facts about the plugged in device, such as the power consumption, voltage, amperage, etc. I started plugging things in and recording power consumption that you can see below. Here are the results I got so far (updated often):

Vizio P50 HDTV 50" plasma
- standby: 0-1W
- on – perfect white screen: 450W (OUCH!)
- on – bright screen: 350-430W
- on – medium brightness: 250-350W
- on – dark scenes: 200-250W
- on – perfect black screen: 185W
Torchiere floor lamp with a 300W bulb
- 1st torchiere – on: 272W
- 2nd torchiere – on: 305W
Cell phone charger
- no phone, no LED: 0W
- no phone, LED on: 0W
- phone charging (Samsung A900): 3W
- phone charged (Samsung A900): 0W
Dell 90W laptop charger
- no laptop, LED on: 0W
- laptop on, screen on, already charged: 33W
- laptop on, screen off, charging: 74W
- laptop on, screen on, charging: 85W
Revlon 1875W blow dryer
- low cool setting: 192W
- medium cool setting: 231W
- high cool setting: 251W
- low hot setting: 408W
- medium hot setting: 644W
- high hot setting: 1520W (HOLY SHIT! Blow drying your hair may just be the most expensive thing you can do. Don't you have some baby seals to club?)
Braun WK200B AquaExpress electric water kettle
- on: 1430W (SHITx2! If you like to constantly reheat your tea kettle, like some people I know, maybe you should switch to a regular stovetop one)
Rowenta electric water kettle
- on: 1465W
Plain 2 slot toaster
- on: 950W (and 8 Amps! If everyone just gets rid of their kitchens, we will have an instant green paradise)
Honeywell 51000 air cleaner
- on – low setting: 57W
- on – high setting: 94W
Honeywell compact fan similar to this one
- on – low setting: 28W
- on – medium setting: 36W
- on – high setting: 45W
Panasonic MC-V5710 vacuum cleaner (10A)

on – 900W (8A, guess it's getting old)

Norelco electric shaver

plugged in – charging: 3W
plugged in – in use: 0W (apparently, the shaver can't charge while being in use)
plugged in – charged: 0W (no overcharging is done when you leave the charge on for too long)

Got any requests? Post and I'll try to fulfill and publish them here.

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