My until now semi-private project ā€œPlanet Pingā€ just got a whole better and is now called ā€œPlanet Switzerlandā€ and got a new domain too (http://planet.blogug.ch).

One of the main new feature is the ā€œMore Infoā€ link on each post, which tells you some (hopefully) interesting information about that post and blog like ā€œwho linked to this postā€, ā€œwho linked to this blog in generalā€, Feed link, Tags from list.blogug.ch, Top100 rank, when was the last post and the screenshot from Alain's gallery.

The linking info is only taken from blogs which are in our DB and which have links in their RSS feed, meaning, if a site not listed on list.blogug.ch links to you, it won't show up here. Therefore it may neither be complete nor going back far in history.

To be buzzword compatible, the ā€œmore infoā€ part is requested on demand with some AJAX technology (actually it's more AHAH), basically to ease the load from the server and to prevent a lot of unnecessary DB requests.

I also added some search options to it. Here are some examples:

Fulltext search in content and title: /search/bitflux (we use the MySQL boolean fulltext search for that, so you can use all those parameters here, but forget about the relevancy stuff, we order the output by date always)

Search all posts from a site/blog: /search/site:blog.bitflux.ch

Search all posts, which link to a site/blog: /search/link:blog.bitflux.ch

Search all posts, which link to an entry: /search/linkex:www.sequenz.ch/blog/archive/[ā€¦]bloggertreffen-2.html

Search all posts with ā€œsomethingā€ in the entry link: /search/inurl:klum

Search all posts with a certain tag: /tag/bloggertreffen

Search all posts with two tags: /tag/bloggertreffen+zurich

Search all posts with an exact tag: /tag/!politik

The last one is needed, since I introduced taggroups (that's what usually is displayed in the right column). ā€œpolitikā€ and ā€œpoliticsā€ build the taggroup ā€œpoliticsā€, so if you search for /tag/politik or /tag/politics all posts tagged as ā€œpoliticsā€ or ā€œpolitikā€ are displayed (with both queries). But if you search for /tag/!politik really only posts with ā€œpolitikā€ are shown and not those with ā€œpoliticsā€.

By the way, search parameters are not combinable, somethign like ā€œsite:blog.bitflux.ch phpā€ won't work. Maybe laterā€¦

All the output is also available as Atom or RSS feed, just prepend the URL with /atom/ or /rss/, eg: /atom/search/link:blog.bitflux.ch

The design isn't the ultimate thing as of now (especially not on IE), that should change some day in the future. We have gotten a nice theme for blogug by Sis and I'll hopefully be able to use thatā€¦