juust ~ php oddities

I am developing a new google serp plugin for wordpress. I developed it over the weeknd on wp2.8, it should run on anything with a ’shutdown’ hook and jquery. I will be adding some other stuff to it over the next few weeks, but I thought I’d put a beta on the blog. If you try it, I hope it runs, send some feedback.

If you have some ideas about cool features drop me a note, I might put it in there. I was pondering on a rest service to pool sem-data and develop some competitor analysis functionality, but that is just a vague idea.

for completeness : php bing serp scraping :

I was putting together a serp tool with a database and an emailer on a cronjob, mainly because I am lazy, I always get cranky when I have to type in these keywords again, I ain’t a teletubby.

I wanted an automated one with a history that sends me an email every day, so I started putting on together but I got distracted because the gethost server was shut down and my moms Mary Chapel event blog was on it. My old site was also on it, with my crappy blog, but losing that ain’t half as bad as losing yer moms Mary Chapel blog, that is bad karma.

So I got her a domain and put it on one of my accounts, installed a new blog and made sure it ranks number one in google again. Apart from that I was putting together a scraper and still needed some cron jobs for the scraper scripts.

I found a nice free cron job site, standard 5 jobs a day. It’s free and it works flawless, no hassles. Very nice.

Once I had that I remembered I still had to finish that serp thing as well, so I finished the basic routines today. Still needs some testing, and it could use the yahoo and msn serps. I’ll grab them from a wordpress widget and add some language options, after that it should be a fine tool.

I’ll put the scripts up for download in two or three weeks or something.