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Try This Search On
Detects when you are searching any website and provides links to do a similar search on several major sites.
DETAILS
This script tries to detect when you are searching any website and then provides links to do a similar search on: Amazon.com, Ask.com, dmoz, Google, Live (msn), Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube.
Supported Sites: a9, allmusic, allmovie, allgame, answers.com, devilfinder, digg, dogpile, download.com, eBay, flickr, flixster, IMDb, slashdot, sourceforge, stumbleupon, userscripts, youtube (plus many, many more).
Search Types: The script also tries to determine the type of search you're doing and change the search links to more relevant sites. For example, searching for images will provide links to other image search engines. You can click "swap" to switch between these context links and the regular links.
RECENT UPDATES
Last Updated Feb 1 2008:
- Improved support for other languages
OPTIONAL FEATURES
Amazon Links: By default links to amazon sites created by this script will contain an affiliate id that allow me to earn money if you purchase something from them after clicking on the link provided by this script. This has no effect on how much you pay. If you really don't like this, it can be disabled by changing the value of "affiliateLinks" in the script to false. (Note that links existing in web pages are never altered)
Referrers: The script can check the referrer for search terms if none are found on the current page. However, this is disabled by default because the search bar may show up when its not wanted. To enable this feature set the value of "checkRef" to true.
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I have made some changes in response to jayleecn's comment however I am unable to test this myself since I only speak English. Any comments relating to the script's support for languages with non-latin/non-roman characters would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi, maybe you can change "escape" to "encodeURI" and "unescape" to "decodeURI", then this script will work better with some Asian languages, such as Chinese.
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Hi Rolli,
I don't see why it wouldn't work on Google for you. Do you have any other scripts or extensions that affect Google that may be causing it? Have you tried reinstalling the script? Does it work on other Google sites (like google.ca or google.co.uk)?
The link you gave is the same link I use as a shortcut for searching Google and it works fine over here. It even works when I click on your link.
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Its a great script and it works fine for all search engines apart for Google for me.
I use http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Why is your script not working on any of my Google search sites?
Do you have an idea?
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Thank you for the script. A few small changes I made in my local copy are :
1) Added one conditional for del.icio.us
else if (m=location.href.match(/del.icio.us\/(tag|popular)\/([^\/#\?]+)/)) { q=m[2]; }2) Added option to close on pages like Google Video where the bar obstructs the controls
d.innerHTML = '<a href="javascript:closeTTSO();">X</a> Find ...and then towards the end
var s = document.createElement('script'); s.language='javascript'; s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.text = 'function closeTTSO(){try{document.getElementById("mySearcherBar").style.display="none"}catch(e){}}'; head.appendChild(s);login to vote
I got an account here just so I could say this script is great!
Thanks for writing it.