Best Safari Hack Ever
On my daily perusal of macosxhints.com, I came across a great hint this morning. It allows you to redirect the place that the Google Bar submits to. Instead of sending it to a site, you send it to a script you host on your computer. This script then parses what is in the Google Bar. And by adding parameters to the front of your search query you can dynamically choose what search engine you want to use. I have been wanting this functionality since day one. And its soooooooooo nice to have it. It speeds things up very nicely. Its a total productivity hint, and I love it. Here are a few of the sites and their query strings that I am using.
NOTE: I have selfishly shortened these for the sake of my web page's design. Right click on them to grab the full link.
- IMDB.com: http://www.IMDB.com/Find?%query%
- AllMusic.com: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=a…ery%
- MacOsXHints.com: http://www.maco…y=%query%
- Google Images: http://images.google.com/im…arch
- Php.net: http://www.php.net/%query%
- Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/search/sear…ry=%query%
- Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/gro….q=%query%
- Google News: http://news.google.com/new…%query%
- MacUpdate: http://macupdate.com/sear…ords=%query%
I defiantly suggest trying this out. Its worth its weight in gold. I'm really not sure how that analogy could ever apply to what I was talking about.