search functionality

There was a time when browser toolbars were actually kind of handy — especially the Google Toolbar. By providing access to features most browsers didn’t offer by default — like auto-translation, cloud bookmark and history storage, and beefed up search functionality.

There have been some stories about how YouTube is preparing to work with a bunch of big movie studios to sell access to movies.

It's been offering up some movies for a year or so, though it hasn't really caught on. The hope is that with big Hollywood pictures, people might care more.

I'm not convinced it will be that big of a deal -- especially for folks who use Netflix -- but it's an easy enough thing to do.

Except...

Heroku is a Ruby webapp hosting service that we first mentioned about two years ago.

It started off as an online IDE of sorts, but is now a complete cloud platform for running Ruby webapps.

In a new post to his blog Danne Lundqvist compares two sites he used the Zend Framework for - a tourism guide for Dublin and the Swedish/English Fuengirola guides.

He looks at three elements of the sites - the backend, search functionality and the frontend setup.

Matt Turland has posted his latest part of his in-depth look at Magento to the Blue Parabola blog - a look at the search engine optimization features (this is the eleventh part, you can catch up on other parts here).

This time he's focusing on the built-in search functionality with topics like:

The Firefox sidebar tool Juice could change the very way you browse the web, especially if you’re an information junkie or a multitasker.

StumbleUpon is one of the biggest names in social discovery.

The toolbar provides an easy way to rate content, share it with others, and discover cool stuff based on your tastes.

Recently though, there’s been another service that’s been trudging into StumbleUpon’s social discovery waters: Twitter.

Dave Marshall has made a few updates to the ZFSnippets.com website lately in response to some of the feedback he's gotten.