With some free time during the holidays, I’m updating the site with some features. One change that has already been made is the addition of a shortlink (⌘.ws) on each single post page, which gives you a shorter permanent link to any post.

Revamping the site’s search feature with relevance-based ranking and support for boolean search operators is a larger undertaking; expect this feature within the next few weeks.

A ridiculously useful JavaScript bookmarklet.

Shortwave responds to commands. A command consists of a predefined trigger plus optional search terms. To search Wikipedia for “bookmarklet” you would type w bookmarklet into the prompt and hit enter.

“Bing is a new contender in the search space and while I personally think it’s making solid progress, our users are not asking for it in great numbers yet. But we reevaluate our search providers regularly and we are not precluded by any arrangements with other search providers from adding anything we believe our users want.”

Translation: we don’t want another search option because it will eat away at revenues generated from our partnership with Google.

The official Google Webmaster Blog has confirmed that the “keywords” meta tag isn’t used at all in Google’s web search ranking, and has in fact been disregarded for a few years now.