How to Add Google Real-Time Search to Your Bookmarks
11 Comments 12.19.09Here’s a great little bookmarklet created by Steve Rubel but posted on his Posterous blog in HTML instead of as a draggable link. That’s fine if you’re using a browser with decent bookmark support, but for some reason Chrome, otherwise the best browser around, is terrible about bookmarks. Laughably terrible, maddeningly terrible. It would make my laugh if it didn’t make me so mad. Anyway, here’s a link you should be able to drag up to your frustrating little Chrome bookmark toolbar, or to any browser’s bookmark bar, for real time Google search.
Click and drag this little puppy right here —> Real-time search
Highlight a word or phrase on any page and then click that button, or just click it freestyle and enter a query. Then you’ll see the freshest search results on the internet, per Google, including new web pages, Twitter messages and sometime soon posts from Identica, Facebook and more.
You know what I’m going to do? I’m going to delete all my bookmarks from Chrome, go set them up in the order I want them in Firefox and re-import them. How silly.
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Nice. Cheers.
By Alexander Korth on 12.19.09
it’s great! can you make one that opens a new tab, though? javascript neophyte here.
By dr on 12.19.09
It is just really messed up that in 2009 bookmark management & syncing isn’t just a no-brainier and completely bug free. Google’s on their a-game everywhere but here, ironically.
By Chris Spinchange on 12.19.09
You have browser bookmarks? I stopped using those, short of bookmarking cloud services, when I created a delicious account.
By Ari Herzog on 12.19.09
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By links for 2009-12-20 | Don't mind Rick on 12.20.09
It is not workable for IE 7.
By Young on 12.20.09
The bookmarklet works great on Safari, but would not add to Chrome on a Mac, unless I’m doing something dumb?
By Sally on 12.21.09
[...] and I have no downloads. Hopefully this will change soon. I came up with this idea after finding Marshall Kirkpatrick’s post about Steve Rubel’s bookmarklet. While this add-on was inspired by the [...]
By Google Real-Time Search Add-On For Firefox | bundyxc.com | Christian Bundy on 12.24.09
I took this idea, and created a search plugin for Firefox. My blog post can be found here: http://bundyxc.com/?p=235
You’ll find a link to your blog in my post. Props on the bookmarklet.
By bundyxc on 12.24.09
Link to add-on page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/56389
By bundyxc on 12.26.09
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