NEW Optical Search Engine

[HarryChiling]

I have developed a new site which harvests the power of google search to search only optical websites. This new search engine is a portal for opticiains, optometrists, and ophthalmologists. There are over 500 different optical sites and more being added daily. If you are doing a search on anything optical try this first.

http://optics.onlineopticianry.com

Please let me know what you think and how I could improve it, or if you think a site is missing please post it and we will add it to our ever growing list of sites.

[GOS_Queen]

That is awesome! Way to go!

(when I tried to search for a few things, it found what I was looking for -) :cheers:

[HarryChiling]

I am glad you liked it, I am hoping that it will become a usefull resource for the optical community.

[EyeFitWell]

Harry, I've only know about it for two minutes, and already it's helped me out! Very good call! Now, I can find what I need w/o sorting through a ton of unrelated information.

[Chris Ryser]

...................I am hoping that it will become a usefull resource for the optical community.

Harry................superb idea

I stitched a big link into my website listing, down the middle of the page at http://optochemicals.com/web_ratings.htm

:cheers:

[HarryChiling]

Thank you Chris.

I have the code for a search box if anyone would like to place a search box on their web page:

<form id="searchbox_013556026738663486413:wrydpeziyje" action="http://onlineopticianry.com/optics/searchresults.php">
  <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="013556026738663486413:wrydpeziyje" />
  <input name="q" type="text" size="40" />
  <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
  <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:09" />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_013556026738663486413%3Awrydpeziyje"></script>

[lensgrinder]

Great Job Harry!

[HarryChiling]

Thanks, I actually enjoyed working on this one because it would always frustrate me when doing searches at work and when my boss saw it she flipped out.

[Steve Machol]

Good job Harry. :)

[harry a saake]

harry, fantastic job, how long did that take, i,m trying to do my mantle website, which i have up , but now i have to find some one to finish it off
the optical community will really enjoy great usage of your site,congratulations

[rinselberg]

Just for kicks, I typed "Optical search engine" into Harry Chiling's new Optical search engine. It returned two pages of "hits" - but it did not return any references to itself or its own website - the website that Harry's search engine resides on.

Does that surprise anyone?

I haven't the foggiest - I've never implemented anything even remotely like an Internet search engine.

Where are the real hard-core software geeks ..?



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[HarryChiling]

Rinselberg, I have actually looked over every site that the search engine searches and approved it for search so that their will be no erroneous results when you do a search. I didn't include the search engine in the search engine because I thought it would be a little redundant.

how long did that take, i,m trying to do my mantle website, which i have up , but now i have to find some one to finish it off

It took about a week, I only sleep 2-3 hours a night so I have to do some thing. If you need help with your website let me know, that is one of my hobbies.

Again thank you everyone, I am glad that it is usefull and will strive to improve it and other projects I am working on, and as always keep it open and free for the community.

[jofelk]

I did a search for "optronics edger" , and got good results. I tried the same search on the results page and the Mysite.com page opened. I then tried random words, all opened the Mysite.com web page................From your results page...........
<!-- Google CSE Search Box Begins --><form id="searchbox_013556026738663486413:wrydpeziyje" action="http://MYSITE.COM"> .................

[HarryChiling]

Sorry, I used that as a place holder and didn't change it in a version that I used to update the engine. It's fixed and thank you for pointing that out.

[Joann Raytar]

Harry, nice.

Ps - What is The Association of Technical Opticians?

[Fezz]

Great job Harry! I am very impressed. I have trouble just typing a post or a reply!

:cheers:

[HarryChiling]

New feature added, now you have the option of searching the engine alone or the search engine with additional contact lens parameter data provided by CL Data

New Code for including in your site:

<form id="searchbox_013556026738663486413:wrydpeziyje" action="http://onlineopticianry.com/optics/searchresults.php">
  <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="013556026738663486413:wrydpeziyje" />
  <input name="q" type="text" size="40" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
     <div style="font-size: 11px;"><img src="new.gif" />
        <input name="cl" type="radio" value="0" CHECKED />Optics SE Only 
        <input name="cl" type="radio" value="1" />Optics SE and CL Data
     </div>
  <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_013556026738663486413%3Awrydpeziyje"></script>

[HarryChiling]

Now indexing over 600 optical related websites and if you would like wholesale pricing on contact lenses please PM me for a special link.

[manoj_verma]

Good Job Bro..........A Big Help to Optical Community Indeed .
Cogratulations & Cheers !

[Chris Ryser]

Good Job Bro..........A Big Help to Optical Community Indeed .
Cogratulations & Cheers !

Just hope that you are not going to be 6 years late of congratulating somebodies achievements in too many things.

[shannon]

Excellent! Added it to my favorites bar, thank you!

[SeaU2020]

On my favorites now,too! Thank-you for being so genius!