{"id":583,"date":"2007-09-04T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2007-09-04T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T16:14:00","slug":"chipwrapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/09\/chipwrapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipwrapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">M<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.currybet.net\/cbet_blog\/2007\/09\/introducing_chipwrapper.php\">artin Belam<\/a> has been engaged in some online heavy lifting to create <a style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chipwrapper.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chipwrapper<\/a>. It\u2019s a custom search that just returns results from major UK news sites.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s to like? As <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dadblog.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lloyd Shepherd<\/a> points out, Martin has created something that wasn\u2019t there before. To express it in genuinely clunky terms \u2013 it allies online distribution with \u201creal world\u201d distribution.<\/p>\n<p>For me, there\u2019s a slight issue with the fact that search results aren\u2019t clearly ordered by time, which is the thing I like best about <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Google News<\/span>. Here, for example is a search today on the sad passing of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/09\/04\/europe\/EU-GEN-Britain-Obit-Tomlinson.php\">Jane Tomlinson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_7FX8PyQEiZw\/Rt2IdjhF6JI\/AAAAAAAAAHM\/kNe_rzk-KHw\/s1600-h\/jane+tomlinson+-+Google+Search.jpeg\"><\/a><br \/>As you can see, a local <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/west_yorkshire\/6655181.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span>story from May 2007 pops up first.<\/p>\n<p>Still, such quibbles feel a bit churlish, so final word is that Martin has produced a very welcome addition to the online toolset and I\u2019ll certain be sticking it on the bookmark bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Belam has been engaged in some online heavy lifting to create Chipwrapper. It\u2019s a custom search that just returns results from major UK news sites. What\u2019s to like? As Lloyd Shepherd points out, Martin has created something that wasn\u2019t there before. To express it in genuinely clunky terms \u2013 it allies online distribution with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[453,78],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-google-news","tag-uk-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}