The other day I came upon an article that brought to light a hidden google feature for “live search” over at Search Engline Land Find What’s New In The Last Minute Or Second.
Search results are only as good as their relevancy. Sometimes the highest ranking results are stale but the google spider seems to like it regardless. If i’m not happy w/ results or I need timely results I find myself searching on Twitter or Delicious to get some good ‘ol human suggestions.
Now that I can get timely Google results I’ll add this tool in my arsenal. Only thing it’s a pain in the ass to remember the extra get params (&tbs=qdr:X##&tbo=1) that Google needs appended to the given search url so I made a bookmarklet to make things KISS. After your search, just trigger the bookmarklet (defaults to 1 day) and go from there.
Google Liveify « drag to your toolbar
Google Live Reference
Just add these to the end of your search url if you want to override the 24hour default.
&tbs=qdr:X##&tbo=1
The X## portion gets replaced with:
- s## for number of seconds in the past: &tbs=qdr:s45&tbo=1
- n## for number of minutes &tbs=qdr:n5&tbo=1
- h## for number of hours &tbs=qdr:h2&tbo=1
You get the idea. Enjoy!
Over a year ago I put out a bookmarklet that I used for delicious. Then delicious did a redesign which broke the bookmarklet. Finally I got around to fixing it. Here’s the new bookmarklet. Enjoy!
So I have a confession to make, I love delicious, but I’m lousy at tagging bookmarks. I have a horrible memory so in my travels (and I delicious links a lot) I find myself wanting to tag a bookmark with as many keywords as possible on some off chance I don’t know what to search on to dig up the particular bookmark I’m trying to retrieve. I end up manually toggling every popular tag that is shown on a given post. It’s too time consuming for me.
I’ve been working with jQuery and bookmarklets a lot lately so I had the idea of leveraging the two to create my own LazyTagger bookmarklet for Del.icio.us.
The LazyTagger process is simple
- You must have the Del.icio.us ‘post’ bookmarklet installed. Try my customized version (does away w/ the popup window which I find annoying)
post to delicious « drag this to your toolbar
- Drag the LazyTagger bookmarklet to your browser bookmarks toolbar
- Copy and paste this code into the ‘location’ of your newly created bookmark – you’re going to have to go and edit the bookmark manually from the browser. This has to be done to the avoid character limit on drag-and-drop bookmarklets.
javascript:var%20s=document.createElement('script');s.setAttribute('src','http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js');document.body.appendChild(s);s.onload=function(){var%20tags=[];$('#save-reco-tags%20ul.tag-list%20li,#save-pop-tags%20ul.tag-list%20li').addClass("on").each(function(){tags.push($(this).text().match(/\D*/g)[0]);});tagit=tags.join('%20');$('input#tags').val('').val(tagit+'%20').focus();};void(s);
- ‘post to delicious’ just like you normally would
- When you’re at delicious, click the LazyTagger bookmarklet
- All of the popular and recommended tags will be selected automatically. Laziness rocks.
- After all of the tags are toggled the focus will be placed on the tags input so you can begin typing any other tags you deem necessary.
That’s LazyTagger. I’ve been using it for a long time and I can honestly say I don’t think I could go back. Feedback appreciated.
