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Byline: Tracey Caldwell

OU librarian knocks up custom social web search

Tracey Caldwell

An experimental search engine is allowing users to search the del.icio.us social bookmarking service, using any del.icio.us links page, or the domains those bookmarks come from, to limit a search.

DeliSearch developer Tony Hirst said: "DeliSearch is a side project arising from a secondment from my day job as an Open University lecturer to the OU Library, where I am exploring the potential application of Web 2.0 thinking and technologies to library service integration."

Because DeliSearch uses the Yahoo search application programming interface (API), it cannot search more than about 15 sites.

DeliSearch users supply the username and any required tags for a particular del.icio.us page. The engine then uses the JSON API to pull in the links. JSON feeds at del.icio.us can be used to ...

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