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TooT interface available in Italian

As stated in my last post, we want to make the TooT search engine usable by each Swiss citizen therefore requiring an interface available in all the three main languages of Switzerland, which are German, French and Italian. Until today, we were missing Italian as none of us speaks this language. Luckily an old friend of mine called Daniel, a native Italian speaker, was so kind to do the translations for… Continue reading

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Posted in Suchmaschine on November 29, 2008 | There are currently No Comments

A thrilling week for Yahoo! and TooT

This last week has been quite a thrilling week on the search engines market with the announcement of Jerry Yang, the CEO of Yahoo!, leaving the company after just one year. For those who don't remember, Jerry Yang has co-founded Yahoo! back in the mid-nineties and has left after earning quite a lot of money. But last year when things started to go awry for Yahoo! he was called back… Continue reading

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Posted in Suchmaschine on November 24, 2008 | There are currently No Comments

Initial crawling tests have started

The first crawling tests have started this week-end, to be exact on Saturday the 15th of November 2008, and have already given quite some good content to start developing the TooT search engine front end. There are a few small issues of course, like every new starting project but we are confident that we can resolve them in a timely manner. One of these issues is the handling of special characters… Continue reading

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Posted in Suchmaschine on November 18, 2008 | There are currently No Comments