My first $job project is now opensourced. It's a Firefox extension named SearchAll.
SearchAll is a simple side-by-side search engine comparing tool which allows you to search at most 3 different search engines simultaneously and benchmark their performance in the status bar.
With this extension, you can compare 2 search engines or 3 search engines at a time. There's a long list of default search engines that you can choose from (including search.cpan.org!). And you can also enter search engines' URLs which don't appear in the default list
yourself.
Currently only the sites' raw HTML pages are shown to the user. We'll add more comprehensive and more intuitive views and graphics for the search results in the near future. Please stay tuned!
This project was initiated and has been regulated by the Yahoo! China ( http://cn.yahoo.com ) company and opensourced under the MIT license.
One of our buzzword (for extension developers) is that there's 0 line of XUL/RDF/XML in our project's source tree. The GUI stuff is totally scripted in Perl. Thanks to Jesse Vincent's Template::Declare module on CPAN.
You can always get the latest source code of this project from the following SVN repository:
http://svn.openfoundry.org/searchall/
If you like to help, please let us know. We're very willing to deliver the commit bit like the Pugs team ;)
The XPI file that can be installed directly into Firefox can also be found here:
http://svn.openfoundry.org/searchall/trunk/searchall.xpi
There's a XUL application framework named XUL::App sitting in the same repos and SearchAll is already using it. I'd expect to move XUL::App to a separate repos and rename it to a cooler name (maybe Xifty or Xufty?).
Sorry for the lack of documentation. Please see README for some general ideas :)
I've already submitted this extension to addons.mozilla.org and waiting for the editor's approval.
Enjoy!
