Tweaking the search engine

I just did some major tweaking of the search settings for Nipponster. Hopefully this will make searches more accurate and remove some of the junk results that sometimes pop-up.

Nipponster is supposed to filter results so that only Japan-related results come through. I know that this is going to require constant tweaking, especially since we want to go from "ok, it's Japan-related" to "Wow! these results are Japan-related and better than any other results on the web!"


We want the "wow factor." How would you rate Nipponster search right now? Is it a wow? How can we improve?

Work in Progress

There is so much to do and so little time!

I have a lot of little edits to make here and there on Nipponster.

I'm going to talk about them because I think mistakes should be celebrated! None of us are perfect.

I made some edits to the layout of the search engine results pages (SERPs) and did not realise that it messed up some of the design. It looks ugly and I have to fix it.

If you see any other things that look out of place (design-wise) or things that do not work, please let me know!

I am always giving feedback to other sites like that because I know how helpful it is.


[This is an aside, but an important one: If you have a site or blog about Japan I challenge/encourage you to help your fellow Japan-related sites! It will help them, it will help you, it will help the readers and in the end make us all one community]


Let's keep dreaming; let's keep building, together!

Update. We are still full of crazy dreams.

yikes! It's been awhile since we last posted to the official blog.

Keitaro and James have been really busy with their full time jobs, although James has been helping me with a new Japan-related project that hopefully we will launch sometime soon.

I have been busy with work and Daily J. The latter has been going really well, in my book, because it has turned into a center for discussion about the Japan-related web. That discussion is set to grow and in the near future with some guest blogging I'll be doing, but more on that later.

For now, I just want to say...

We are still crazy dreamers striving to create the best Japan-related tools we can for all of you Japan-enthusiasts out there.

And,
We are always always interested in your feedback, and we love helping out Japan-related projects!
So feel free to contact me (Tori) at eaglelandgrace [att] gmail [dott] com