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deviantART Search - Non-Sub
Published: 2004-10-18 18:27:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 25784; Favourites: 138; Downloads: 8906
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Description
Now that deviantART has allowed use of the search for all users of deviantART, it's best to use this plugin .---
Just a little plugin I wrote for the Mycroft search bar that accompanies Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape. The plugin adds deviantART to the list of search engines in the Mycroft search bar. To install this plugin simply extract the two files in the ZIP file to the "searchplugins" folder in your browser's directory...
Example: "C:\Program Files\Firefox\searchplugins"
This is a rather outdated plugin, all this does is simply allows you to search deviantART through Google's image search engine. Thus, it's not as good as using deviantART's search feature but it's still pretty good.
This has been tested on Firefox 1.0PR, Firefox 1.0 and Netscape 7.2. If you encounter any problems please note me. If you use this plugin, please let me know what browser and version you're using. You can find the deviantART version here .
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Comments: 157
Aye, but for the moment it is, and it's a feature a lot of people actually HAVE paid for just to use.
So promoting this damages you business-wise 
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Deffinitely not true, this search plugin doesn't work nearly as well as the real thing. And like someone already mentioned; google doesn't index all of our pages, and only indexes every few months. So this search tool, is by no means current. Our search tool is always current....
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Heh, well I long for the day that no-one need use this plug-in then.
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Cool thing. I hope all of those bitching non-subbies visit the frontpage today.
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is there a version of explorer?
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It's a nice idea, in fact, I have been toying with it before, but ultimately dropped it, because Google Image Search only updates their index every 4-6 months, and the 'Medium' size search still includes avatars etc. while 'Large' size search finds only very huge images (of which there are few).
Does Googlebot regularly index user pages anyway? I see it update the main page quite often, but finding comments is quite hard. Then again, I haven't looked at all robots.txt
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ver very cool.. im so glad i can search now... thank you very much
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mmmm I have firefox 1.0 what does "PR" stand for? proffessional?
I put the two plugin files in the searchplugin directory of mozilla firefox and then closet the browser and started it but nothing happened
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PR was the Preview Release before 1.0 was released
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ah okei anyway I got how the plugin works now.
thank you very much it was very useful!
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im gonna get firefox just for this app
u rock!
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What...they only just got around to giving this a DD? Jeez you guys are slow! It's been in my Firefox Extension List for weeks!
Ah well. Really Glad this (finally) got a Daily Deviation. 
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Haha, sorry. I just found it yesterday. Wish I would have found it sooner.
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Lol probably should have messaged the Daily Deviation selection people when I saw it shouldnt I?
What is that by the way? Is it a certain member of staff?
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You can use this page as a reference. [link] It contains a list of DD admins and what galleries they reside over.
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Oh yeah...one more thing.
You have seen the Deviant Link Extension by *ayembee , havent you?
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Yes, I use it. I didnt feature that one because it has recieved a lot more credit and attention than this did.
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Oh cool. 
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I am subscriber, so I don't need it. I just wanted to say how much I despise people who consider everything as granted, and that are asking for features or complain, like if the tool was specifically meant to satisfy them. Just keep going on and ignore these absolute losers.
Max
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Ugh, this plugin sucks...
whys it search google?
its missing so much
AND I HATE FIREFOX!
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If you took the time to read the description, you'd notice that it clearly states that it uses Google's image search. The reason behind this is quite simple, deviantART only allows the deviantART search to be used by subscribers. Thus, I wrote this pluging as an alternative to deviantART's search. Yes, using the Google image search is nowhere near as good as using deviantART's search but I'd like to think it's a hell of a lot better than nothing. Another thing, the reason why it misses so much in the searching is because Google's update of deviantART's images is very infrequent, there is nothing I can do about this. Finally, to draw attention to your obvious distaste of Firefox, once again, had you bothered to read the description, you'd realize that this plugin works with Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape.
Please, take time to read and reason before you post comments, it will save us all a little time.
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this is a great tool, but i wouldnt of thought it'll be a featured one, i mean, the search is charging, and yourve made it so much easier for people to rip works -_-
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why, when firefox blocks pop ups and is faster?
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? i don't get pop ups...... netscape is archaic
the majority of people using windows use internet explorer
so.... why not make it for more ppl
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1) Firefox is not Netscape
2) Internet Explorer was declared a "mature product" by Microsoft over two years ago and will not be updated until Windows Longhorn is released. The most recent Firefox release was earlier this month. IE does not correctly support (if at all) any of the W3C (web) standards, nor is it capable of the extensible XUL plug-in architecture that Firefox is built on. IE doesn't even support 32-bit transparent PNGs!!!!! Talk about ancient!
If you like IE, fine. But there's no way you can call IE archaic over Firefox.
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Hail Firefox! IE has success mostly only because people are dumb; they use what they get by default. Although FireFox is better than IE in all possible aspects... Yet most people don't use it.
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Whoah! You can like IE over Firefox, but 1) Firefox is not Netscape... and 2) Internet Explorer has not been updated for *TWO* years. Firefox supports all of the newest W3C (web) standards and was most recently released earlier this month. You do know that Microsoft declared that IE is a "mature" product and won't be updating it anymore until Windows Longhorn is released.
In any case, IE can't do Mycroft so this cannot be ported to IE.
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So we can't use your searchbar?all the reason is this? I don't wanna use Firefox or other ones. Are you against ie?
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mmm, but cant you just go to google and put in some flags to get it to only search deviantart.com anyway?
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yeah, if you put site:deviantart.com after your search criteria--
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Yeah, but why go to the trouble? Just use the search bar in your browser... Makes sense, doesn't it! you don't have to type [link] , then type 👍: 0 ⏩: 0
A big YAY for this idea, I am a subscriber and I don't use any of this browsers, and I am also not planning on using his tool, but the idea is great and I agree with the last message "lol this is a good idea, and quite funny too, in a strange 'fuck you ya Nazi Admins' type way."
YAY for fucking ya NAZi admins, also good to see that not all of them like pixel art.
Peace
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nice idea! very very nice idea. a worthy feature indeed. would like to see some internal DA search implemented later on (obviously one would have to set the proper cache or cookie or whatever so they were logged in).
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lol this is a good idea, and quite funny too, in a strange 'fuck you ya Nazi Admins' type way.
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I don't agree. He is a subscriber; thus supporting deviantART. I think he is just trying to help the deviants who can't get subscriptions, or those deviants who have an attitude towards us admins, such as yourself. The search feature is not subscriber only because we are being greedy. It is subscriber only because it crashes the site when it is used a LOT, which occurs when anyone and everyone can use it. Making it subscriber only decreases database load; considering there are 1.2 million deviants and only around 5000 subscribers.
We are working on a new search engine; it will be available to everyone. It is not as easy as some think, it takes time.
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oh. and i totally understand the whole difficulty of creating a search facility, because i code PHP, ASP, and SQL etc for a web-design company part time, so sorry about that... oh and i don't have an attitude towards the admins by the way, why would i? what have you done to piss ME off?
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ookay... wait up. Doesn't this look slightly like a joke to you kevin? sorry if you took it the wrong way, and thanks for the indepth comment, but just to get this straight, i dont hate admins, or mods, being, and having been, both, on various sites before, so i understand that, and maybe its just me, but most of the 'anti-admin' comments aren't really serious are they? i can't find this particular board now, so if anyone could give me a link to where i posted this that would be great
anyway, i AM sorry if you took it the wring way and i've offended you, and im genuinely surprised at the ffedback that particular comment has recieved, so yeah, sorry.
Oh and to save double posting, mouseathome2004, sorry in particular to you cos i seem to have got on your tits and been labelled as having a 'non-conformative personality disorder' lol.
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here here! i totally agree, i havent jioned this site very long but i think i have already got the general atmosphere of this site and its not one that comes across as money grabbing or nasty admin-ed (word?). i think this is a great site and i already have managed to get one of my friends to join through word of mouth and probably some more to come. i have no problem going up to a message on here and shouting at someone who has an excessively non-conformative personality disorder and screaming GREAT JOB ADMIN! at the top of my voice. not many other sites would give us the freedom to show our artistic flare in this manner!
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Don't worry, almost all of us know that admins want good for us, ignore comments that are different, they always lament that you do everything for the money and doh! where I can find so many space for my art with getting feedback for free... Don't get attencion kevin we love DA
Great Idea btw.
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true but of those 1.2mil how many are active? (6months or less)? how many are banned deviants (do those ghost accounts get considered in the 1.2 mil factor)? im just bringing up some points. i don't mind that the search is limited if it means stable usage.
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LOL! great job! ya thin the administrators will consider this as "evil" ... 
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