Who You Calling A Jesse?

Once in a while the Google search API decides to act up. No idea why but it does. There is a thread on the Google API list that suggests this is unusual but UW isn’t the only place that is having problems. I am sorry to those who are inconvenienced buy the search acting up, we have made a couple changes to make it easier:

• better error message with a link to the google/UW search (always works and it is doesn’t make you search again)
• caching of search results makes short term outages unnoticeable—but we will need to extend caching times to more than 24 hours I think
• version 3.0 of the search will have the ability to detect the error, give you a note about it, and give you Yahoo! API results instead—how that works with the UI is still a good question ;) I might make the search a sourceforge project as well… so anyone can add to it, but I am not sure what do about the API key yet.

In the meantime version 2.7 should be out for testing soon, it uses the UW LDAP search for people rather than UWDir—UWDir is annoying at times. Makes partial matches a lot easier as well.

Again my apologies for any problems…