{"id":267,"date":"2007-10-27T08:33:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T08:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/27\/google-revamp-searchmash-with-flash\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T08:38:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T08:38:40","slug":"google-revamp-searchmash-with-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/27\/google-revamp-searchmash-with-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Google revamp SearchMash with Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchmash.com\">SearchMash<\/a> for a while now. However it hasn&#8217;t been updated in a while &#8230; that is until now. A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchmash.com\/flash\/search\/\">Flash based version of SearchMash<\/a> is now available for people to experiment with. I&#8217;m really enjoying using the new version, when you single click on a search result you get a preview pane with a thumbnail of the site along with other information. Whilst it might be argued that the Flash version is slower than the original AJAX based version, the new version is a big leap forward in terms of it&#8217;s aesthetics. I am curious as to whether releasing a Flash version of SearchMash was a tit-for-tat response to Microsoft&#8217;s SilverLight based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tafiti.com\/\">Tafiti<\/a>. I guess the difference between the two is that whilst the new Flash based version of SearchMash is more aesthetically pleasing than the original, it&#8217;s still very usable. The problem with Tafiti is that whilst it is gorgeous, I find myself falling back to Google or SearchMash because the results are presented more clearly and simply.<\/p>\n<p>Try it out for yourself: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchmash.com\/flash\/search\/\">http:\/\/www.searchmash.com\/flash\/search\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It requires Flash version 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Google&#8217;s SearchMash for a while now. However it hasn&#8217;t been updated in a while &#8230; that is until now. A new Flash based version of SearchMash is now available for people to experiment with. I&#8217;m really enjoying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/27\/google-revamp-searchmash-with-flash\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[189,190,387,188],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-20","tag-ajax","tag-flash_version","tag-google","tag-searchmash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}