Google Blog Search bug

There is a definite bug in Google's Blog Search service. If you use the blogurl: parameter to constrain searches to your blog URL, you will get only 1 result, even if you know that the search term should occur in many pages. I wrote them an email (see below), but there has only been the usual canned response so far.

... I am writing in to report that what seems to be a recent bug in Google Blog Search. If I search for "energy" on my blog, there should be hundreds of results, because it is one of my areas of interest, but Blog Search returns only one result. It is not limited to my individual blog. Here's another example, from a friend who's using Blogspot. If I search for say, "work late" I will also get this single result. But if I search for "work women", I get another single result. Which means that if I searched for "work", there should be at least 2 results returned, but there is only 1 ...

I'm not the only one who's encountered this bug. Fortunately, Google Blog Search without the blogurl: parameter still works as expected, and through that I have found that the folks at googlesystem.blogspot.com and googlified.com have also come across this problem.

If Google does not fix this problem soon, I'll have to revert back to the built-in Lucene search engine as the default choice for the search box on the right. It'll be a little slower but it *does* return me my expected 500+ results if I search for "energy", as compared to just 1 for Google's Blog Search.

(2006-07-26 16:07:51 SGT) [Tech] Permalink

Honda moves into aviation market with small jet

today.reuters.com :

Honda announced long-awaited plans to enter the aviation industry, saying it would start taking orders this fall for a seven-person micro-jet with a wing-mounted engine design that promises improved fuel economy. The upcoming HondaJet would compete in the market for an emerging class of very light passenger jets priced at under $4 million.

Honda, which has been quietly developing its aircraft project for the past two decades, also said it had struck a wide-ranging alliance with Piper Aircraft that would include sales and marketing of the new plane. Honda will form a new U.S. subsidiary to handle production of the HondaJet, expected to compete in a market for very light jets the company projects at about 200 planes annually.

Honda unveiled a prototype of its HondaJet last year at the Oshkosh, Wisconsin air show and brought it back again to that event this week. The twinjet features a composite fuselage, aluminum wings and two turbofan engines. Honda has announced plans to make and market those HF118 jet engines in a tie-up with General Electric Co.

Lockheed Martin profit rises 26%

bloomberg.com :

Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defense company, said second-quarter profit climbed 26% on higher sales of government computer services and commercial satellites. Net income rose to $580 million ($1.34 a share) from $461 million a year earlier. Sales rose 7.2% to $9.96 billion. Lockheed posted the largest gains for the quarter at its space business, the maker of Atlas rockets, which accounted for 18% of last year's sales.

The company, the maker of the F-16 and F-22 fighter jets, raised its 2006 earnings per share forecast to $5.10 to $5.30, from $4.65 to $4.85 previously. The sales forecast was narrowed to between $38.5 billion and $39.5 billion.

Biometric passport will be introduced in Singapore on Aug 15

channelnewsasia.com :

Biometric passports will be introduced in Singapore from mid-August to replace the current ones which are non-biometric. The current machine-readable passports will continue to enjoy visa-free travel to the US up to 90 days, but these passports must still be valid for more than 6 months and have unused pages.

Applications that reach ICA on and before 8th August will be treated as applications for non-biometric passports while those received after 8th August will be for the BioPass. Each bio-metric passport will cost $80. Singaporeans who apply through ICA's e-service, deposit boxes or via post will get a $10 rebate.

(2006-07-26 11:27:16 SGT) [Tech] Permalink

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