my tildelog

a blog about tildes

New version of searchvista is out!

May 14, 2026 — ~cartwright

New version features better search results, and faster search times. Next month (June 14th 2026), We will be trying out pagerank.

PageRank

PageRank is an algorithm for measuring a webpage's relative importance or authority based on its link structure. It works by treating links as "votes" where votes from more authoritative pages count more. So like if tilde.club is pointed to my 15 other sites, that means that tilde.club will have a higher score, and the score will be even better if the those 15 sites were pointed to by someone else, the more sites on the tree pointing torwards tilde.club the better score. Not all votes are equal because a site with many links dilutes its own power.

tags: searchvista, search engine, pagerank

Switching to Window Maker from TWM

April 30, 2026 — ~cartwright

Much smoother than TWM for normal use.

tags: twm, wmaker

Another post

April 02, 2026 — ~cartwright

Another post about nothing.

tags:

Switching to TWM from GNOME

January 21, 2026 — ~cartwright

Switched to TWM from GNOME, because gnome takes nearly 15% CPU while idle, and while playing video about 200% CPU usage.

tags: gnome, twm

SearchVista mirror systems upgrade

January 11, 2026 — ~cartwright

Upgrade went smooth and only 1 minute of down time!

tags: search-engine, searchvista

SearchVista mirror systems software upgrades

January 11, 2026 — ~cartwright

Mirror #1 (https://xuser.publicvm.com) will be down for the max of 48 hours for system upgrades within the next 7 days.

tags: searchvista, search-engine

SearchVista index

January 09, 2026 — ~cartwright

The index update has finished and all mirrors are updated.

tags: search-engine, searchvista

SearchVista index update

December 29, 2025 — ~cartwright

The index will be updated starting from now, until jan-5-2025

tags: search-engine, searchvista

Added add url link

December 22, 2025 — ~cartwright

Added a Add URL links so that regular people can now submit URLs to be indexed. https://sv.tilde.one/add_url.html

tags: search-engine

The testing of my search engine

December 19, 2025 — ~cartwright

Have been testing my search engine for the last 2 days, and the search engine gives some pretty good results, only %25-%50 of the results are relevant, but most of the relevant results are interesting. Visit the search engine at: https://sv.tilde.one or mirror #1: https://xuser.publicvm.com

tags: search-engine