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An idea

I think your script could allow people to make their own anchors on pretty much any page whatsoever that were 'permanent' and 'bookmarkable' via ordinary urls (as opposed to bookmarklets).

I got the idea from Wikipedia and this script:
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http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6413

example

On any Wikipedia page - all of the links in the "Contents" box are actually anchors that can be bookmarked.

Guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar
Guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [History]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar#History
etc...

On the Wikipedia Guitar page - a person using your script could shift-middle-click, as example, just before the phrase

>Most electric guitar bodies<

and your script could make a link with an anchor - but use a google search url starting with a question mark instead of the url itself.

? "Most electric guitar bodies" site:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar - Google Search
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&...

The question mark seemed like a good idea since it's already used in the address bar to search the preferred search engine.

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If your script is installed - since the google search starts with a question mark - your script could redirect the url, create the anchor on the page and go to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar#Most+electric+guitar+bodies

And the title could be rewritten to show the anchor text:

Guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Most electric guitar bodies]

If the text can't be found - the person would still be at the right url and the title could show the problem

Guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia >>Text Not Found!<< [Most electric guitar bodies]

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If your script is disabled or not installed - the google search url allows the bookmark to degrade gracefully. Mystery meat urls and 404 messages are avoided.

The person would end up at google and they could see the destination url and the text in question.

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If I weren't so awful at programming - I'd write the script myself. But that's a gigantic "if".

this IS indeed a very useful script, thanks.
pretty hard for me to use (maybe I need some more time than 2 min)
can you attach a screencast?

you might also want to use it with increment ▲ & decrement ▼ (bookmarklets)