Notes, links and conversation

You can tell the difference between a cherished and nourished product like Technorati’s blog search from an early version like Google ’s by small things, such as: have they thought of a bookmarklet? I didn’t find any mention of it, but it’s only a matter of find-and-replace to adapt Technorati’s favelet*:

Update Aug 27th 2006: see here

Bookmarklet installation**

Firefox

• Right-click this link: Google Blog Search and choose “Bookmark This Link”
• Click the “Create in” dropdown and choose “Bookmarks Toolbar Folder”

Internet Explorer

• Right-click this link: Google Blog Search and choose “Add to Favorites”
• Click “Yes” if there is a “May not be safe” popup
• Choose “Links” in the “Create in” pane and click “OK”

Now you’re off keywordsearching (when a few keywords in your browser window are selected) and linksearching (for blog links pointing to your current location).

What you get is the default search… you can adapt the “blogsearch?q=” phrase at the end of the javascript to any of the advanced options by test-and-replace the url.

BTW, if you use the Firefox search plugin, there’s already a version available for Blog search.

* which is how Technorati calls bookmarklets
** instructions copied and adapted from del.icio.us, Safari and Opera users are probably intelligent enough to do it on their own ;-)

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