Google custom search engine for OSDev

iurlano · Post by **iurlano** » Fri May 04, 2007 4:11 pm

Hello everybody.
I have created a google custom search engine dedicated to operating system development.
It is publicly available at http://aiurlano.netsons.org/OSDev/

Please, try it and let me know what you think and how I can improve it.

Thanks for any feedback,
Alessandro

AndrewAPrice · Post by **AndrewAPrice** » Fri May 04, 2007 7:52 pm

cool! Could you do one for the forums on http://creators.xna.com? They don't have a search function

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Fri May 04, 2007 8:45 pm

Hey, wow! Just what I needed - some help with ATAPI!!

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Fri May 04, 2007 9:19 pm

Is it really that hard to search google or the forum manually... Some people

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Fri May 04, 2007 9:26 pm

I was being sarcastic for a start, I already had the ATA docs in front of me...

But this is useful becuase it means you get only osdev results, but if you search Google directly you can get massive amounts of irrelevant info.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Fri May 04, 2007 9:28 pm

pcmattman wrote:But this is useful becuase it means you get only osdev results, but if you search Google directly you can get massive amounts of irrelevant info.

Filter through it with some dignity man

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Fri May 04, 2007 9:31 pm

Why should I waste 30 minutes of my time when I can just use this to find what I need? 30 minutes of coding is enough time to implement ATA (without testing) - I started about 20 minutes ago and now just have to do the xfer functions... Better than spending forever looking for docs and code and whatever else.

iurlano · Post by **iurlano** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:02 am

Brynet-Inc wrote:
pcmattman wrote:But this is useful becuase it means you get only osdev results, but if you search Google directly you can get massive amounts of irrelevant info.
Filter through it with some dignity man

It is difficult to filter google's results because lots of irrelevant pages can contain commonly used terms. Using a custom search engine even simple searches with commonly used terms can give good results

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Sun May 06, 2007 4:25 am

Filter through it with some dignity man

I invite you to find the datasheet for the floppy controller using normal google. I needed some 10 keywords to get some useful sources on the first page, with the custom engine I only needed to enter FDD to get all the needed information.

nick8325 · Post by **nick8325** » Sun May 06, 2007 6:56 am

Combuster wrote:I invite you to find the datasheet for the floppy controller using normal google. I needed some 10 keywords to get some useful sources on the first page, with the custom engine I only needed to enter FDD to get all the needed information.

Search for floppy disk controller datasheet. The first result is from osdever.net

xsix · Post by **xsix** » Sun May 06, 2007 11:27 am

eh, another toy. but still fun and useful. in my oppinion

Candy · Post by **Candy** » Sun May 06, 2007 12:11 pm

pcmattman wrote:Why should I waste 30 minutes of my time when I can just use this to find what I need? 30 minutes of coding is enough time to implement ATA (without testing) - I started about 20 minutes ago and now just have to do the xfer functions... Better than spending forever looking for docs and code and whatever else.

You know that testing is at least twice the coding time? Not to mention that the testing time increases exponentially if you reduce design time - which, given 30 minutes of time with 20 minutes of coding seems to tell me you've got a lot of testing to do.