Thu Tu’s Blog

Have you ever been at a web site and wanted to find something on it but couldn’t because the site either lacked search functionality or had a useless one? Did you want a tool to help in your predicament? Here’s one that I’ve found helpful: Search Everywhere by Paul Komarek. It was developed by a [...]

When Opera announced that it had “named Yahoo as the exclusive provider of mobile search on … Opera Miniâ„¢ and Opera Mobileâ„¢“, there were mixed responses, depending on people’s preferences.
The seemingly easiest solution for those with different preferences is to change the browser homepage to the desired search engine, or any page in general. That’s [...]

When I first learned of Linked Custom Search Engines from Google Co-op, I didn’t really get it. When I got the explanation, I then saw the potential.
Previously, to create a custom search engine, we needed to go into a control panel to give Google a list of sites we want it to show results from. [...]

Not even a day had passed since I figured out How to Integrate Google Custom Search Engine Results into Wordpress Blog Template and I figured another way to integrate search results into Wordpress.
As described at the site, “Google AJAX Search API lets you put Google Search in your web pages with JavaScript.”
One of the drawbacks [...]

I was checking out the control panel for my blog’s Google Custom Search Engine and saw something under the Code tab that I hadn’t noticed before: Search box and search results code for your website
I was intrigued at the thought of having the search results show up with my blog’s theme. After completing my search [...]

After much internal debate, I finally decided to change my Wordpress blog to use pretty permalinks. It was a difficult decision to make with lots of pros and cons to consider. I placed an asterisk next to cons that turned out to be irrelevant.
Cons to using or switching to pretty urls

I like the flexibility [...]

One of the things I am most interested in when reviewing my site’s statistics is to see the keywords/queries that helped people find my site. It encourages me as a blogger because it shows that people are looking for topics that I am writing about, and they are able to find it accordingly.
A bonus effect [...]