New Spotlight clone

MPAMPoULAs · May 25, 2005

hey i will test it for you send a url.

TomLapp420 · May 25, 2005

ok, the forum is messing with the link when I put it in, I got it in now but there is a space in it (I don't know why)..

"http://127.0.0.1:4664/ok?url=%2F%26s%3Dbvizpe2Q5nVGVoHbe9EUUM5w3Xw%26q%3D&s=QrPJy5VIIOy2D5pinKQbhUs-yxQ"

Copy and paste it into the addressbar and get rid of the space, that should work

Ivan · May 25, 2005

dude, i'm copying the link with no space all the time, and i always get the same "invalid page" thing..

MPAMPoULAs · May 25, 2005

Ok i just install it and I did a search with my critirial and i got this :

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html><head><title>Google Desktop Search Browser Requirements</title>

<style>

BODY { MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em }

BODY, TD, DIV, A {	FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif}

DIV, TD {	COLOR: #000}

A:link {	COLOR: #00c}

A:visited { COLOR: #551a8b}

A:active { COLOR: #f00 }

</style>

</head>



<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000cc" vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000" topmargin=2>



<table cellspacing=2 cellpadding=0 width="99%" border=0>

<tr>

	<td width="1%" rowspan=2><img height=55 width=150 alt='Go to Google Desktop Search Home' src='/logo3.gif' vspace=12 border=0>

	<td> </td>

	<td rowspan=2>

	<table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" border=0>

	<tr>

		<td bgcolor=#3399cc><img height=1 width=1></td>

	</tr>

	</table>

	<table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" border=0 bgcolor=#efefef>

	<tr>

		<td nowrap bgcolor=#E8F4F7><font face=arial,sans-serif color=#000000 size=+1><b> Google Desktop Search Browser Requirements</b></font></td>

	</tr>

	</table>

	</td>

</tr>

</table>



<table cellpadding=3 width="94%" align="center" cellspacing=0 border=0> 

<tr valign="middle"> 

	<td valign="top">

	<p><b>We're sorry, but we don't seem to be compatible.</b></p> 

<p><font size="-1">Our software suggests that you're using a browser incompatible with Google Desktop Search. 

	Google Desktop Search currently supports the following:</font></p> 

<ul><font size="-1"> 

	<li>Microsoft IE 5 and newer (<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.asp">Download</a>)</li>

	<li>Mozilla (<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/">Download</a>)</li>

	<li>Mozilla Firefox (<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">Download</a>)</li>

	<li>Netscape 7 and newer (<a href="http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp">Download</a>)</li>

</font></ul> 



<p><font size="-1">You may <a href="/ok?url=%2Fsearch%26s%3DkAC8l7cbKWCGy9JpDcrDlyV7tGw%3Fq%3Dmayia%26ie%3DUTF%2D8&s=8ZGTW7omNVd25pTW7stezYb2oac">click here</a> to use your 

	unsupported browser, though you likely will encounter some areas that don't 

	work as expected. You need to have Javascript enabled, regardless of the 

	browser you use.</font>

<p><font size="-1">We hope to expand this list in the near future and announce new 

	browsers as they become available.



	</td>

	</tr> 

</table>



<center><font size=-2>©2005 Google </font></center>

</body></html>

And the page show the right result.

TomLapp420 · May 25, 2005

ok, here's what you can do, this will be a little tricky but this is what I had saladin do

1. In the preferences dialog, enter some search text and press search

2. In the rawhtml box, near the bottom (scroll down) you will see a link that looks almost exactly like the one I posted on this forum

Example:

href="/ok?url=%2F%26s%3Dbvizpe2Q5nVGVoHbe9EUUM5w3Xw%26q%3D&s=QrPJy5VIIOy2D5pinKQbhUs-yxQ">click here to use your

unsupported browser

3. Copy the link between the parentheses starting with /ok?url=

4. Tack on http://127.0.0.1:4664 or http://Localhost:4664 to the beginning of the url

5. put that into the addressbar and click go, you should see the google desktop search page appear in the window below the address bar

If you don't have sucess, copy all of the rawhtml into a textfile and attach it to your post, I will extract the url for you

TomLapp420 · May 25, 2005

MPAMpoUALs:

"http://Localhost:4664/ok?url=%2Fsearch%26s%3DkAC8l7cbKWCGy9JpDcrDlyV7tGw%3Fq%3Dmayia%26ie%3DUTF%2D8&s=8ZGTW7omNVd25pTW7stezYb2oac"

Paste this link into your addressbar, remove the spaces and click go, you should see the google desktop page appear below the address bar, if it does you are ready to roll!!

Ivan · May 25, 2005

<html>

<head>

<title>Redirecting</title>

<script language="JavaScript">

if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("opera") == -1) {

  location.replace("http://127.0.0.1:4664/search&s=oFwJQLmRWg1qs5kbKvGhMQL9qCw?q=ivan")

}

</script>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url='http://127.0.0.1:4664/search&s=oFwJQLmRWg1qs5kbKvGhMQL9qCw?q=ivan'">

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

TomLapp420 · May 25, 2005

did you see the google search page appear under the address bar?

MPAMPoULAs · May 25, 2005

I did what you say...and its work fine

If you need any help ask.

Thanks again.

TomLapp420 · May 25, 2005

ok, so I found the problem, all I need to do is write some code to automatically extract that one url and initiate it. Since you did that, a cookie was created somewhere on your computer telling google that your ok with using an unsupported browser. Can you believe all of that just because google want's to remind you that your browser is unsupported!!!

Ivan · May 25, 2005

can't you just make your program identify like IE? opera has that option, firefox too through a plugin..

TomLapp420 · May 25, 2005

it's ok, I am writing code now to extract this url and initiate it automatically. And no, I can't, the control analyzing the code is the inet control from vb. It's based on internet explorer but for some reason google doesn't recognize it as ie. I should be done the fixed build in less that a half hour

TomLapp420 · May 25, 2005

ok, I need someone who has not been able to get it to work to download this copy of spotlight.exe and tell me what happens. I put in code to sniff out the url clearing the unsupported thing automatically, simply run the program and see if it works

spotlightexe.zip

TomLapp420 · May 25, 2005

has anyone got it working with the new exe, i need to know so I can release the next build?

roycifer · May 25, 2005

sniff url produces an error:

runtime error '5': invalid procedure call or argument

fmpuk · May 25, 2005

Still nothing. I have done everything said, but I still just get no results. It remembers my URL and all that, but no results at all.

sacas · May 25, 2005

Google Desktop Search Browser Requirements

We're sorry, but we don't seem to be compatible.

Our software suggests that you're using a browser incompatible with Google Desktop Search.

Google Desktop Search currently supports the following:

Microsoft IE 5 and newer (Download)

Mozilla (Download)

Mozilla Firefox (Download)

Netscape 7 and newer (Download)

You may click here to use your

unsupported browser, though you likely will encounter some areas that don't

work as expected. You need to have Javascript enabled, regardless of the

browser you use.

We hope to expand this list in the near future and announce new

browsers as they become available.

Arzen · May 25, 2005

Tom, thanks a lot, build 4 works fine, though GDS didn't manage to finish indexing yet.

No problems with getting results in "unsupported" Opera8.

I can host the distributive, if you want, my bandwidth is unlimited.

ultimate540 · May 25, 2005

Do you need avedesk to run this?

roycifer · May 25, 2005

no this is a standalone app.

ultimate540 · May 25, 2005

no this is a standalone app.

excellent!

sacas · May 25, 2005

[b'] Google Desktop Search Browser Requirements

We're sorry, but we don't seem to be compatible.

Our software suggests that you're using a browser incompatible with Google Desktop Search.

Google Desktop Search currently supports the following:

Microsoft IE 5 and newer (Download)

Mozilla (Download)

Mozilla Firefox (Download)

Netscape 7 and newer (Download)

You may click here to use your

unsupported browser, though you likely will encounter some areas that don't

work as expected. You need to have Javascript enabled, regardless of the

browser you use.

We hope to expand this list in the near future and announce new

browsers as they become available.

TomLapp420 · May 25, 2005

Sacas, did you download the new exe from above? this one sniffs out the code needed to tell google its ok automatically

fmpuk · May 25, 2005

Ok I got it to search, but when I click any image files I get this error:

Error in C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32SHIMGVW.DLL

Missing entry:IMAGEVIEW_FULLSCREEN

any ideas?

(Great prog. Tom though, love it.)

fmpuk · May 25, 2005

FIRST, go to http://www.google.com, do a search and get the code from it. E.g. http://localhost:4664/&s=THENUMBERSTHATAREHEREq= paste that into the top box, then search from within the preferences panel, and you should get results..

1. In the preferences dialog, enter some search text and press search

2. In the rawhtml box, near the bottom (scroll down) you will see a link that looks almost exactly like the one I posted on this forum

Example:

href="/ok?url=%2F%26s%3Dbvizpe2Q5nVGVoHbe9EUUM5w3Xw%26q%3 D&s=QrPJy5VIIOy2D5pinKQbhUs-yxQ">click here to use your

unsupported browser

3. Copy the link between the parentheses starting with /ok?url=

4. Tack on http://127.0.0.1:4664 or http://Localhost:4664 to the beginning of the url

5. put that into the addressbar and click go, you should see the google desktop search page appear in the window below the address bar

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