{"id":1033,"date":"2011-01-19T16:54:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2011-04-06T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T21:27:37","slug":"google-results-walker-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2011\/google-results-walker-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Results Walker R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google implemented my <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/google-results-walker\/\" target=\"_blank\">results preview concept<\/a>.  You&#8217;ll start seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/landing\/instantpreviews\" target=\"_blank\">integrated previews<\/a> now in your google results &#8211; they did a great job!  It&#8217;s nice to be validated, and frankly, nice to have the monkey off my back as far as trying to repeatedly resurrect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedigitalmachine.com\/wiki\/index.php\/GoogleResultsWalker_Firefox_addon\">Google Results Walker<\/a>.  Re-engineering someone else&#8217;s web site is fun as hell, until you&#8217;ve over-committed, and then the original website exits stage left on you and invalidates all your work.<\/p>\n<p>It sure was a fun ride while it lasted &#8211; 50,000 downloads in its heyday, when I was knee-deep in the Mozilla Add-ons developer community.  That&#8217;s the most successful software I&#8217;ve ever written, in terms of users.  Coupled with the joy of a completely cross-platform solution!<\/p>\n<p>So to sum up, thanks Google for improving your search in exactly the way I thought needed it to be done.  :><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/news\/2011\/grw_stats.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/news\/2011\/grw_stats_small.jpg\" alt=\"Stats\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google implemented my results preview concept. You&#8217;ll start seeing integrated previews now in your google results &#8211; they did a great job! It&#8217;s nice to be validated, and frankly, nice to have the monkey off my back as far as trying to repeatedly resurrect Google Results Walker. Re-engineering someone else&#8217;s web site is fun as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,19],"tags":[34,32,33,35],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-opensource","tag-add-ons","tag-dead","tag-google","tag-search"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-gF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}