Let’s Site Search!
| Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | --Sean |
I am continually amazed by the sophistication expressed by browser bookmarklets these days -- there's almost nothing you can't do with a moderately short Javascript function embedded in a button, apparently. A particularly awesome example (Yahoo!-related, of course -- that's why we write about it) is the Search site bookmarklet, developed by Stoyan Stefanov. Drag the actual bookmarklet to your toolbar, and what do you get? A fancy new search box dropped into the page that performs site searches within the domain using BOSS. And it autocompletes for you, too. It seems so easy that I'm surprised that there are any sites out there wouldn't have an internal search box -- but then again, now that I have this bookmarklet, I don't really care whether they do or not.
Pro tip: Save a bookmarklet as your home page for easy application on any page you visit, without needing to take up a bookmark slot!