{"id":2219,"date":"2009-12-18T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2009-12-18T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T19:58:14","slug":"search-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2009\/12\/18\/search-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Search tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of nights ago, Gwen used the phrase &#8220;Googling for something on America&#8217;s Test Kitchen&#8221; instead of &#8220;searching for\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6&#8221;, which just reinforces that Google has become a synonym for search.<\/p>\n<p>Google search results are often polluted by irrelevant links to commercial websites like bizrate and dealtime, though. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if there were a way to avoid that? There is: use <a href=\"http:\/\/givemebackmygoogle.com\/\">Give me back my Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It would be even nicer if you could search via GmbmG right from the search field in your browser. And in fact you can, but you&#8217;ll need to set it up first<\/p>\n<h4>Safari<\/h4>\n<p>Safari does not let you customize your search field out of the box, but there are some <a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmysafari.com\/\">hacks<\/a> like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.machangout.com\/\">Glims<\/a> that add this capability. Once you&#8217;ve done that, you&#8217;ll need to add GmbmG to Glims as a custom search engine and teach it the specific search syntax that GmbmG uses. It is:<br \/>\n<code>http:\/\/www.givemebackmygoogle.com\/forward.php?search= <\/code> <span style=\"color:#900;\tfont-style: italic; font-size: smaller;\">search key<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Firefox or Internet Explorer 7+<\/h4>\n<p>These browsers support something called the &#8220;open search description document,&#8221; which makes adding a new search engine dead-simple. I have no idea how this works in IE, but in Firefox, just install <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/55300\">this plugin<\/a> (which I created, not the creator of GmbmG\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe plugin is currently listed as experimental, but it&#8217;s perfectly innocuous, I promise) and it will add that site to the list of search engines your browser uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of nights ago, Gwen used the phrase &#8220;Googling for something on America&#8217;s Test Kitchen&#8221; instead of &#8220;searching for\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6&#8221;, which just reinforces that Google has become a synonym for search. Google search results are often polluted by irrelevant links to commercial websites like bizrate and dealtime, though. 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