yes, as it is said in the blogpost, the only thing missing is the full text of the page for indexing & searching in it, we don't dare to release it because of copyright issues (he, you distribute the full text of my page!).
With this data you could for example built a new alexa and find out what was the most visited page last week :)
With this data you could for example built a new alexa and find out what was the most visited page last week:)
While what you're doing is interesting, and this data could shed some light on a lot of questions, you're putting the cart way before the horse here.
125k searches equates to, generously, 12.5k users? From the Chrome Webstore and PlayStore it seems theres about 500 users from those.
A correct statement would be 'with this data you could for example find out waht the most visited web page was from our subset of a subset of 12.5k users'
That said if you get a significant market share this could be very interesting. I'm guessing you don't always plan on providing dumps for free and will monetize them at some point?
Of course you are right, with such data you could build something like alexa. We are aware that this data is currently a tiny subset of the web and does not represent much, but it has potential if it grows.
Since we do not consider this data to be ours, we do not plan to charge anyone for the dumps.
'Blippex is a search engine by the people, for the people. Individuals that have our browser extension installed tell us how long they stayed on a webpage.'
I haven't had a chance to download the dump yet but I'm assuming that the time points are time spent on the website by users.
Random sidenote: I haven't downloaded but if this is a community version of Oracle Coherence (nee Tangasol) it might be reasonably badass. As an ex-oracle employee, I've heard the insider view from friends that unlike most oracle in-house or acquired software, Coherence is the real deal, scales as advertised, and except for the $100k per enterprise box price-tag, should have taken the storage world by storm.
I think this is an important indicators of whether you should be an entrepreneur or a software developer. The best developers are fascinated by the processes that animate their work; sometimes they can't dig down all the way given time constraints but I find that they (and I) could happily analyze (and ideally rewrite) the entire gordian knot of a complex system.
Entrepreneurs have a totally different profile. Instead of the "how" and "what" of the project, they focus on the "why" and the "who cares". Will this project be valuable? Should I pivot this idea? Who is my first customer and what do they want?
These tendencies don't coexists very well -- they both want to be priority 1 in my mind. While I've been writing code, polishing scripts, reading kernel code, and accumulating my 5000 lines of emacs-lisp hacks, my friends chose different routes and started small businesses or pursued influence and high salaries. Now I'm a super-wonky developer and they're much better at sniffing out the real value in the world. Each of us has our place and on some days I'd rather be them. Somehow though, and somewhat mysteriously, when it comes time to choose I'd rather be rewriting the low level than pursuing meaning at the high-level.
If you call that bold, ok.
I call it: easy to read and less strain on my eyes.
Especially because there is no need for ClearType (et al), which I can't stand, as it always looks blurry to me.
Another nice choice, on the sans-serif side, is an APL font from dyalog (even if you're not an APL programmer). It has a certain old-school charm that pleases me.
