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Month: August, 2008

Huge performance improvements added to Chofter.com

25 August, 2008 (09:46) | performance | By: admin

Chofter.com has just been upgraded with a number of significant performance improvements.  These were mainly targetted at fixing speed issues in Internet Explorer, whose JavaScript engine is a bit on the snail-like side.  Users of Firefox or Safari probably won’t notice a huge difference, but for users of Internet Explorer it will feel far more [...]

Added expanded results to Chofter.com

9 August, 2008 (13:35) | Uncategorized | By: admin

The option to use either a compact or an expanded view of results has been added to Chofter.com.
Using the compact view, each result displays a title and summary for that page. Using the expanded view, each result displays the title, summary, and links to similar pages, cached versions of the page and more.
The type [...]

Microsoft Live search added

2 August, 2008 (20:30) | Uncategorized | By: admin

In what I hope to be a often-recurring happening, I discovered another search site that kindly makes their search data publicly available.  You may have heard of them…. Microsoft!
Chofter now comes with Microsoft Live’s web and news search capabilities, in addition to all the others that currently exist.

Chofter is born

2 August, 2008 (11:16) | Uncategorized | By: admin

Did you ever feel, when searching the web, that most websites are firmly rooted in the 90’s?

User interfaces that display information, but do nothing more.
Cool names but the same old click-wait-click-open-new-window?
Search engines that force you to go to multiple different sites to search for images, videos, books etc?
10 results per page? Seriously?

Chofter.com is a search [...]