If you do any amount of ‘re’search on the web like me, then you will benefit from these tools called Bookmarklets – basically, tools saved in your browsers favorite’s or right on a toolbar.
These are search bookmarklets and here’s how they add value and efficiency to web research. The 3 major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN – in that order) all have biases that generally return different results - therefore it is generally more helpful to cross-search across all 3 sites rather than view beyond the first 20 or so results on any 1 site.
Alas, what a pain to type and search on Google, go to Yahoo and type and search, then again on MSN. Enter these bookmarklets. Voila! With these beauts, you visit Google and search, then click on the Yahoo bookmarklet and you are instantly transferred to the search results on Yahoo. No more typing. To add these to your browser:
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In Internet Explorer, right-click and select ‘Add to favorites’. You will have to answer Yes to the security alert that you trust this link. This is perfectly safe, but you will have to trust this to try it. Then you can save it – I like to save it in my ‘Links’ folder which puts them on the ‘Links’ toolbar for 1-click access.
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In Firefox, right-click and select ‘Bookmark this link’. I like to add to my ‘Bookmarks Toolbar’ for easy 1-click access on the toolbar.
Enjoy and let me know if these make ‘re’searching better for you.
Author | Dave Darby
Dave Darby is a husband, father of 5, son, entrepreneur, speaker and well, a renaissance man who frequently needs to dump his brain on thoughts about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
