Today I migrated EveKnows.com from mod_cgi to mod_perl and switched from using Perl to directly output HTML to using the HTML::Template module to handle formatting. The move to HTML::Template has been a long time in coming–I’m a big fan of separating logic from presentation, and this finally allows me to do that with EveKnows. [...]
This week marks the release of EveKnows.com 1.0 Beta. The past three months have seen a crazy pace of development, and I believe the results speak for themselves:
Wicked-fast searching of porn galleries? Check.
Incredibly accurate sex search results? Check.
Custom RSS feeds for every set of search results? Check.
Predictive suggestions when entering search [...]
EveKnows.com is currently being upgraded to version 1.0-beta. The site may not be 100% available for the next few hours, but I’ll try to keep it working while the update is in progress.
Wow, busy week! I’ve started to rebuild the primary index three times now, and each time my testing has revealed a few new bugs that needed to be fixed in the Caroline, our search spider. Last night I believe I fixed the last of these; Caroline has now been running for 24 hours [...]
It’s been a while since my last post. I wanted to let everyone know that development of EveKnows.com is progressing at a break-neck pace–this past month has seen some tremendous improvements behind the scenes. Searches are running faster and with more accurate results than ever before, and I believe the site is finally [...]
After yesterday’s post about slow negative search terms and MySQL’s disregard for the EXCEPT operator, I came upon a decent solution for EveKnows.com’s problem. With some (slightly) clever use of LEFT JOINs, I was able to cut the running time of queries with a single negated term in half, and that run time drops [...]
Today I discovered a wonderful new SQL operator: EXCEPT. This neat operator allows one to join two tables, with the result being all of the rows in table1 which are not in table2. One of the slowest operations for EveKnows is handling queries with negated terms (such as ‘teens -blonde’ to search for [...]
Development of the EveKnows.com porn search engine is progressing swiftly! Today sees the addition of sorting search results based on either date or relevancy. Like most search engines, EveKnows assigns a score for each word on a webpage based on the number of times it occurs, the word’s location on a page, and [...]
Today I updated EveKnows.com to support searching for video galleries, photo galleries, or both. This feature exists in most other porn search engines and helps bring EveKnows up to feature-parity with them. To make use of this new ability, check the desired options (either ‘Photo galleries’ or ‘Video galleries’) beneath the search box, [...]
Today I hacked a new feature into EveKnows.com–the ability to see where our galleries were found. Search results now include a line of the form “X Photos from thehun.net” or “Y videos from cutegirlsdaily.com”. This let’s everyone know the site which we used to find the gallery, and provides searchers with an easy [...]