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4 Sep 2008
Searching in nomasnumeros900.com with Google and Firefox
written by Sergio Fernández at 20h51
In Spain telecommunications market is really annoying. If you have an ADSL line they say that you can call by free to all the land lines. But that’s not really true: there is a special kind on numbers called 900 (mainly 901 and 902) that you must pay, not so much, but you must pay. The funny thing is that number is just a commercial number on a normal land line. But at the end, if you don’t know the real number, you should have to pay that kind of calls. The problem is that companies don’t share that free number, That’s the reason that motivated nomasnumeros900.com (no more 900 numbers), a collaborative wiki where people can put the numbers that they are discovering. In two years the collected thousands of useful numbers.
But the problem is that they chose MediaWiki, and they are trying to use its really bad search engine to search that phone numbers. Many months ago I decided not to use more its search form, and I switched to Google (with a domain restriction) to search in nomasnumeros900.com. You can make queries that with MediaWiki don’t have answer. And today, in a while, I decided to write a search plugin for Firefox to do it faster. It was really easy, the documentation is really good and you have a nice validator.
It’s my first search plugin, so if you find any error, please tell me. And enjoy it!
