Nov 7 2005
find the URL of your dreams
As some of you already know, del.icio.us quietly released a newer, much spiffier search engine about two weeks ago. I can assure you that it would have been a much louder release had hurricane Wilma not cut my services shortly afterwards. I’m back now, and I’m happy—damned proud, actually—to announce our fully armed and operational search engine. Go try it!
By the way, here are some details about the new query syntax. It’s dead easy: Enter some words, and you’ll get back links that contain all of them: bacon lettuce tomato finds BLTs.
The search engine goes through tags, page titles, extended descriptions… the works. Tags can be searched exclusively, though. Prefix tags with “tag:” like so: tag:bacon.
The purists out there might want to search for BLTs specifically. They’re welcome to look for “bacon lettuce and tomato” as a phrase. Note the quotes.
Maybe you can take or leave bacon. Maybe you also like tofu sandwiches. You’re the kind of person who’ll love the OR operator and parentheses: (bacon OR tofu) lettuce tomato gets you BLTs or the tofu, lettuce and tomato variety.
Vegans can use the - (minus) prefix to exclude meat products: lettuce tomato -bacon -ham gets you salads.
The search engine also supports AND, which is almost never needed because it’s the default. There’s also NOT to negate a term. Most of the time the minus prefix will work. We even support XOR, which is a bit funky: (bacon XOR ham) cheese gets you bacon and cheese, or ham and cheese, but not bacon, ham and cheese.
But you probably almost never need to worry about all that. The simple keyword searches are a lot of fun by themselves.
Rocco Caputo · braino Tags: features Bookmark this
14 Comments
Sebbo | Nov 9 2005 at 2:37 pm
The engine seems to no longer be searching URLs. If I want to find out if anyone’s bookmarked any portion of my website, is there any way to do so?
Justin Mason | Nov 9 2005 at 2:59 pm
it appears that a search for “tag:system:filetype:mp3″ doesn’t yet do what http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3 does… is that planned?
it’d be great if I could search for “mp3s but not podcasts” ;)
ycc2106 | Nov 9 2005 at 4:57 pm
Thanks all this is great!
Would it also be possible to see the total, in number, of favorites for each tag?
anon | Nov 9 2005 at 7:51 pm
how about keeping track of where a link came from?
you already manage that if i copy a link from someone else’s del.icio.us bookmark.
i like to keep track of the referrer where i actually discovered the url.
any thoughts about implementing such a feature?
sandra | Nov 12 2005 at 4:08 am
where do my imported favorits from IE go?
I imported my firefox bookmarks to IE then imported my IE favorits to flock. Both times the wizard said import successful but i cant find them anywhere???
What can i do? Flock otherwise is the best browser of all and only at v0.5!!
nancy | Nov 12 2005 at 8:22 am
I am from china in Beijing Forest University and want to make friends with some of you with heart,to be exact i am a poor english speaker,some help will be …
.sorry,i do’t know how to express myself
Will you email me ? Maybe i am some bold,
sean | Nov 12 2005 at 8:33 am
I’m a bit mystified as to why the search doesn’t get the same results as a url.
for example: If I search for gruyere I get nothing from my own bookmarks, but if I type in the url: http://del.icio.us/tag/gruyere
I do indeed get my own bookmark and a few others as well.
By the way thanks heaps for delicious! I’m a traveller and I just can’t get by without it.
Uncover China | Nov 19 2005 at 10:57 pm
I was just thinking really this site is the future of Search Engines really, alot of people ask how search sites will develop - but a community driven site such as this one is the way to go…
BattleMan | Nov 22 2005 at 7:46 pm
Are you working on a way to map the following to the same site, thus having the tag count be higher:
I searched for “Black Friday”
I got these three results:
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http://bf2005.com - 78 people |
http://www.bf2005.com - 41 people |
http://www.bf2005.com/index.html - 18 people |
I understand that if you start parsing out the file names and subdomains you are walking on slipperly slope, but there are some basic assumptions you could make. Don’t put it in the display code, do it when you add a bookmark… “did you mean this”… use AJAX and do it on the fly. There are lots of ways, but it does taint the search results.
I think it means more to say that 137 people liked that site than to see three different sites, one with only 18.
This could reduce the lines on the search results page, which might make people think there aren’t that many users, but the reality is, if the content is good and the results are tight, people won’t care. Or at least I won’t care. Quality over Quantity any time.
- BattleMan
Stephan Sokolow | Nov 23 2005 at 5:51 am
It makes me happy that I can now search for foo and -bar, but I wish that tag:foo and -tag:bar would work.
paupau's blog&hellip | Nov 30 2005 at 6:14 pm
find the URL of your dreams
As some of you already know, del.icio.us quietly released a newer, much spiffier search engine about two weeks ago. I’m happy—damned proud, actually—to announce our fully armed and operational search engine.
Enter some words, and you’ll get back li
rvm | Dec 7 2005 at 8:47 am
How about ‘reverse resolving’ — search a tags / bookmarks for given URL ? :)
Sometimes I want to know, is somebody are already bookmarked given URL (to copy them, or explore)..
rickdog | Dec 20 2005 at 1:20 pm
Ya, but tag intersections no longer works!
The Navigation section in our help page (http://del.icio.us/help/navigation) describes tag intersections, your example: del.icio.us/tag/france+politics.
Tag intersections *always* return zero results.
The big problem with this is that you can’t get RSS feeds using the http://del.icio.us/search/?all=tag1+tag2 format, something you were able to do with the del.icio.us/tag/tag1+tag2 format.
Can anyone explain how to get multi-tag RSS feeds?
Jimmy Kanada along with all 6ft and 11inches of Bastrop County's Marvin Kanada | Oct 2 2006 at 6:11 am
This is a Bastrop county challenge from all 6ft and 11inches of ole Marvin Kanada and Jimmy Kanada. Who has the audacity to challenge 11 of our meanest neutered blood hounds with rabies, syphilis, and razor sharp teeth in the middle of 3 feet of Bastrop county johnson grass, whip more leprechauns with a goat horn in order to make them lick ole Jimmy Kanada’s toilet clean, Piss for the longest time in a bucket to wet the suit of a prick headed to the white house, Vex more old 67 year old weman by pooping on a news paper and throwing it at the door, fry more fish in dog piss and pig snot to feed a 3 leg having goat, stink up more fish by stuffing them with frog and mule dookey while they are still alive,train more wild Hyenas to attack zoo keepers, flip over more cow pattys for mushrooms that are placed on a pizza for serving stuck up weman, hunt more wild zebra with a bunch of smoke bombs, stuff more bottles with alligator piss and poodle poop for busting open store windows, ride a moose 55 miles across wet swamp mud in order to hunt mud fish, who could place more poop in the beak of a pelican, drop more baby hogs in a bucket full of glow worms, beetles, and scorpions, slop more stubborn house wives with doberman poop and goat milk to make them mop the parking lot for not sucking ole 6ft and 11inch Marvin Kanada’s toes, whip the snot out of more pizza delivery boys with a red hot branding iron for asking the wrong questions, use more wild giraffe snot and guerrilla piss for killing polmetto cave roaches, sip more wine, yak, and red label liquir before pissing off of a building with 55,000 people standing below celebrating labor day, curse out more right wingers to warn them of ole 6ft and 11inch Marvin Kanada’s mangy blood hounds with rabies, hunt more geese with poison darts dipped in battery acid and ape piss, take the longest crap on the store room floor of Walgreens, dump more monkey poop in the bathroom sink of the golf course restroom, climb up taller trees for a surprise attack on acamper, stab more deer with a rotten toe nail, neuter more jackals and hyenas in the wild with sharp glass, hunt more duck with a screw driver dipped in camel dookey, dry more pissy rags in order to piss on them twice for gagging a figure ice skater, cut down more weeds with your aunts toe nails tied to the end of a fishing pole, laugh in the face of more conservatives before whipping one of them with a broken toilet seat, throw more dog and duck poop at a jogger during hunting season, soak more rope in P.M.S juice and rat blood to slap the waiter in a family restaurant, stomp more water bugs and grass snakes with no shoes or socks on, feed more blood hounds with duck meat fried in cow sperm, use more bear piss and frog sperm for force feeding a blind hillbilly cowboy with only 8 toes due to the blood hound attack on Jimmy Kanada’s green trimmed grass, and fill more water jugs up full of cigar tobacco and mountain goat sperm for decorating your mother in laws house, We now that yall caint jack with us Bastrop County bad boys and you pricks would get the piss knocked out of you by Marvin Kanada’s rusty fist on my grass. He stands 6ft11 inches tall. He would catch you before you could run more than 20 feet on my grass and make you dance to the shot gun rounds busted at your feet, We dont always get so violent but this is what happens when you jack around with offensive jokes and sarcastic remarks during wine sipping night on Bastrop County grass, Im ole Jimmy Kanada and take heed. We some county men and would love it with intense passion if you pricks would take this challenge, if not you are a bunch of sissys and yellow belly city slickers with no guts, Marvin Kanada has whipped plenty of geeks with just one deer antler for kicks during grape wine night, He is easily offended, So if you ever find yourself on Bastrop County grass, Watch yo wize yapping mouth DAMMIT!