Okay, someone needs to explain to me why we can't have Google Suggest in the Live Results.
The best explanation I've read was from erwan:
"...The reason why we proposed Yahoo live search results and not Google is because Google's search API licence is much more restrictive than the Yahoo one. Technically it would be very easy to change the code to Google, but I'm not sure if it is possible by an extension (as far as I remember the search popup is hardcoded and hard to extend)..."
What's wrong with their API license that makes it so we can't have it?
I want it. I want it. I want iiiiiiiiit!
Evan Hamilton
Hey liquidninja,
I can't go into details because of Legal StuffTM, but the bottom line is that we can't do this right now. We're aware that many community members would like this, and as soon as there is a way to make this happen we will.
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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www.evanhamilton.com/wordpress
liquidninja
Hmmmm interesting.
This is strange considering NDA's are not fondly looked upon in open source communities. Well, I'm looking forward to a blog on this as soon as (or if) you can clue me in.
ChrisVance
My understanding is that Flock has a financial relationship with Yahoo for search results. Firefox has a similar financial relationship with Google for search results. I think it's less NDA and more from a legal contract basis. Evan explained this at the following links:
http://www.flock.com/node/11860
http://www.flock.com/node/62242
Your Name
There are suggestion links in the Firefox search plugins (including the Google plugin). However, Flock simply ignores them.
liquidninja
Oh, I get now. Thanks ChrisVance.
At first I thought that was just speculation about having a deal with Yahoo.
Well, I have no idea why they choose a deal with Yahoo over Google but It looks like Flock just made a poor choice. Because to date no search engine has come up with better results then Google. It's just a fact of the internet.
If by chance a search engine were to dethrone Google. Yahoo would not be that search engine. It would have to be a new search engine that offered something no other search engine was offering and something that goes with the way people work.
BlackEyedFish
After a couple of months with flock, I finally got tired of the search box, which is the only bad "feature" of flock, After a bit of searching I found this plugin for firefox which replaces the default search box and so far seems brilliant: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/552
If you want to round off the edges to make it match flock better this plugin allows that:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/933
Scott - Google Suggest is Live
Looks like you got your wish - I see it live!
Martin Gunnarsson
The search field seems to work like a charm, thanks for the advice. The WellRounded addon is too old to work with the latest Flock beta, so you'll have to live with a square search field, but all other gui ugliness can be turned off in the addon's options.
Thanks again for the tip!