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Just a suggestions for online record searching

I'll give you the picture. You're looking for a really hard to find record and there's about 50 online record stores in which it might be lerking. Now you go along to every single one of those sites and you do a search. This takes forever!

Wouldn't it be easier if somebody made a website in which you entered a simple query and it then went on its own merry way, opening up 50 windows with the results from each of the separate record stores. Then you could quickly flick through the results to see if any of the stores had the vinyl you were looking for. Just a thought. Or does something like this already exist?

I know there's stuff like gemm and musicstack, but not all stores are listed on them.

that would be a very interesting web project.

there aren't any such utilities or services on the web AFAIK...

If anyone else on the forum knows Perl or PHP and HTML, and would like to team up with me to build such a beast, I'd be happy to tackle it and put in the time as well as supply the domain and the web hosting for it. Opening 50 brower windows would be very ridiculous, but perhaps you could search 5 at a time (work on ones in your country first, or ones you feel have the best prices, etc.)

Anybody? It will be some heavy regex work...

www.gemm.com

the sites it searches are pretty crap though. One that searched through stuff like juno and the likes would be brilliant if possible

www.djnexis.com does a search but doesn't link you to the sites.

I know HTML

i'd be very glad to use this search engine after you create it.. i give mad-props to u if u can do it.. but couldn't u just display all the findings in one browser window? cos i remember there used to be a search engine (duno if it still exists and i can't remember its name either) but it would search all the big engines like yahoo, google, lycos, altavista, hotbot, etc.. and display the findings in one window and give links to the specific engine that found the page ur looking for.

It would be fantastic if it could display all the results on one very long page, but I think it would be a lot more difficult to program it if that was the case.

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Originally posted by DJ LIQUID I know HTML

Do you know Java too? Cause I think all the query buttons are PHP based.

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Originally posted by DJ Dowlz Do you know Java too? Cause I think all the query buttons are PHP based.

i havent learned java yet

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Originally posted by shompton If anyone else on the forum knows Perl or PHP and HTML, and would like to team up with me to build such a beast, I'd be happy to tackle it and put in the time as well as supply the domain and the web hosting for it. Opening 50 brower windows would be very ridiculous, but perhaps you could search 5 at a time (work on ones in your country first, or ones you feel have the best prices, etc.) Anybody? It will be some heavy regex work...

I know some PHP, my HTML-knowledge is quite good.

And the idea is really interesting...

The only thing is that I live in The Netherlands...

PM me if you still want to do this...

Mind you, my PHP isn't that great...

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Originally posted by DJ Dowlz Do you know Java too? Cause I think all the query buttons are PHP based.

no offense but what does that phrase mean ????

anyhow, yeah , it'd require deep PHP , my sql , and bunch of database knowledge .....


+you'd have to be "partners" with the websites for obvious reasons....


soons like an interesting idea ....

I'll do my research

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Originally posted by hapamoto i'd be very glad to use this search engine after you create it.. i give mad-props to u if u can do it.. but couldn't u just display all the findings in one browser window? cos i remember there used to be a search engine (duno if it still exists and i can't remember its name either) but it would search all the big engines like yahoo, google, lycos, altavista, hotbot, etc.. and display the findings in one window and give links to the specific engine that found the page ur looking for.

Yeah www.dogpile.com used to be the search engine which searches all the big engines and puts it on the one page for you.

You have VinylSearch but that site looks very unprofessional, altho it found alot that I wanted.

Would be groovy if someone could make a site like DVDPricesearch but for vinyls!

so basicly what you need is:

Webpage designers (kind of speaks for itself)
html coders ( to build the basic structure for the php coders)
php & database people (also speaks for itself)


those are the folks your'e looking for, i have some skills in design and html but I haven't designed for about 3 months now so I might be a little bit rusty

do you guys know how big a task this is??? this isn't something that a couple of kids can just through together and poof there it is. you need, like someone said, all kinds of legal permission to do this as well as the man hours to build the damn thing, plus people to maintain and space up the wazoo. basically i'm saying that its not impossible, but we'd better just stick to what we got.

To do it simpler one just has to make a searchengine that feeds
the shoppingsites searchengines with the query and then collects
the answer and generates a webpage, no need for a database just
a script that puts words into other searchengines mouths.

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