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New Google Toolbar Brings Browse By Name
Philipp Lenssen writes "The newest release of the Google Toolbar (Internet Explorer only) comes with a Browse by Name feature. It lets you enter keywords in the browser address bar, and when Google decides this is a sure bet you will be directly forwarded to the right page. Is this the return of Internet Keywords?"
I typed in "buggy insecure browser" and it took me here.
So...it goes to the I'm Feeling Lucky link?
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Thanks, but I much prefer to use my address bar for my google searches.
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google is becoming just like aol.
Not really sure what the big deal is. Feeling lucky will do the same thing.
Plus IE only with Google and Microsoft sure to go head-to-head soon? Not sure about the wisdom of this decision...
Is this the return of Internet Keywords?
perhaps, until some people do some google whacking to get goatse to come up if someone enters slashdot
Keywords for sale.
Like firefox's address bar already does? Type in a word or phrase and hit enter and you're directed to the equivalent of an "I'm feeling lucky" search on whatever you typed.
I haven't looked under the hood but I suspect it's a glorified I'm Feeling Lucky google search. Doesn't seem very news worthy to me...
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I've been doing natively in OS X for a couple of years (minus the toolbar) and recently with Firefox? Yeah, really cool and innovative. IE is sure to win the browser war
Anytime I use decent search terms Google generally finds exactly what I am looking for within the first three links.
Honestly I don't know how well "I'm Feeling Lucky" will work for most users. Hell, most people I know have to wade through their search results b/c they never know the right way to word their search terms.
No thanks, I'll stick to the google I know :)
that should read
Thanks, but I much prefer to use my Firebird address bar for my google searches.
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http://toolbar.google.com/bbn_help.html for (a little) more info
So they can get to everybody. An invite isn't something you sign up for, it is something given to you, current users would give it to their close friends and relatives, who are prolly not technical users and know nothing about current tech news and development of something as bland as a new email service, but thus letting people know of how good it is, and making sure the word spreads out that much farther. wow, no wonder google mostly or only employs phd's...
smart aren't they? also, google is still free, and I saw many people say they would be completely willing to pay for it on slashdot just because it is pretty much better than any other search engine that is currently available, and it is so damn fast. But Google doesn't need to slow down their conquest of the internet market, by doing something like making their services fee-based, at least not yet. First something as unimportant as a search engine. then an email service. next an efficient and elegant messenger with most features you need and enough userbase from gmail and google to make it the most popular messenger in the world. then a web browser with all these features integrated into a slick and resource efficient application, along with it a security package guarding your internet experience.
then an operating system.
then manufacturing it's own line of computers. most common type at first, but after maybe making it's own type of a portable computer system.
sounds like Apple, in the way that it is so popular right now with the iPods, but only iPods, and the way their products are so elegant and clean and efficient. ut much less expensive than Apple, currently at least.
Along the way probably Google will make a bad decision or in one of the processes I described something better than a Google's product would be released and would gain popularity and the plan would fall through. but Google probably isn't stupid enough to create a plan that isn't fault-tolerant. the course of this plan may take 15, maybe 20 years, and then Google will control humanity and make a cluster of human brains integrated with computers to find out the meaning of life?
oh wait, that would be evil
I pwn this comment. "The Fine Print" says so.
My first thought was "why MSIE only?" but then upon looking closer discovered that it only seems to be more or less replicating the facility already built into Firefox and Safari.
Not too earth shattering, and just in time to catch a declining IE. Most of the folks who would download and install this are probably competent enough to download and install Firefox.
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Q: What happens when you mix "Don't be evil" with "embrace and extend" and reliable searching with Internet Explorer?
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Google, of all people should not be building an IE-only ANYTHING. They should know better.
I think it's a bit ironic, too, that right when Firefox is taking the net by storm, Google puts out something which could give people an excuse not to quit thier IE addiction. "Oh I tried that firefox thing, but it couldn't load my google toolbar, so I went back to Internet Exploder"
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I would guess that this is aimed more at your average mom and pop internet users, not /. readers. As such, if they can avoid the whole keyword problem, it will be useful for their target audience. After all, how many readers use IE anyway?
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Try "miserable failure"
:)
(yes, it's old... still funny though..
"French military victories" works (it does on my Firefox, but I don't dare to try it with the GoogleBar on IE).
"It lets you enter keywords in the browser address bar, and when Google decides this is a sure bet you will be directly forwarded to the right page."
Google hacking will be really damn funny. Just imagine, say, for 6 months, people get used to typing 'update windows' in their address bar. Then, some google hacker figures out a way to suddenly spike the value of some other site somehow to include 'update windows' as the first choice. Hopefully not to goatse.
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Me too. Yup, it was about a second. I clicked on "read more" very soon after the headline appeared, while it still had 0 comments ... must be the headline and article were a little out of sync.
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When there is a positive match between all the keywords you typed and a significant AdWords purchasing advertiser, you will immediately be routed to the highest bidding site.
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I'm a little surprised to find this qualifying as news. I'll be sure to submit a story everytime Firefox adds a cool new feature. Expect a couple submissions a day!
So it will only direct you to the "correct" page when Google decides that page is the "sure bet" of what you want. What happens when it can't find anything definitive enough from your search terms - would it take you to the Google search page or go to its closest match?
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Unfortunately, if you enter a single word, it does not check to see if it can resolve the name on your Intranet first. Instead, it immediately does the "Browse By Name."
This caused a lot of issues on our Intranet. Just warning everyone.
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I thought he was talking about AOL keywords, I've never heard the phrase "internet keywords" before, and assumed he just thinks AOL *is* the internet like so many others.
Guess that makes me a "troll".
BTW, I'll bet cash money that >10% of slashdot readers have AOL.
BTW#2, there's really nothing wrong with AOL, except for lame geek elitism.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
or perhaps you haven't seen MSN search?
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So, is this just a shortcut for the I'm Feeling Lucky button (in which case it is useless) or another way to sell advertising? Have to wonder what happens when you start typing in adwords Google has sold...
For being the first person to see where the keyword "sex" takes me.
http://www.sxetc.org/
(back to Firefox now)
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You can see their fall here:
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Is this the return of Internet Keywords?
In one sense, Google has always been about "Internet keywords" -- accessing information by description rather than name. This simply streamlines the process of going to www.google.com, typing in the search terms, and hitting "I feel lucky" into a single step within the browser.
So why did "Internet keywords" get such a bad rap the first time around? Because, contrary to Google's motto ("Don't be evil"), they were doing it to profit from selling keywords. While they claimed to be delivering information to users, they were really delivering users to advertisers.
Thankfully, Google discovered that there's a sizeable market for honest technology that does what it says. To cite another example, this is also why user-controlled RSS has succeeded where deliverer-controlled "Push" technology failed so spectacularly.
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Everyone is saying "Not too earth shattering" or "My browser already does this!".
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Who doesn't think google can do it better? Of course this will be a glorified "I'm feeling lucky" but google can probably make big bucks selling keywords, to the likes of movies promoters for new release movies (like AOL).
This isn't the biggest chunk of news ever, obviously, but haven't we all seen something LESS newsworthy on
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Isn't the concept of AOL keywords more or less the same as MetaTag? With the exception that the keyword must be unique within the AOL database?
fun with google
....Let the sad,sad IE people have a little fun for once.
I do not think for a minute that replicating existing Firefox functionality was Google's main reason for not creating a Firefox version of this toolbar. The simple fact is, Google knows very well that IE, even with its recent troubles, STILL accounts for over 90 percent of all web browsing, and is therefore their primary target audience.
Supposing it had been the other way around... Let's suppose that Firefox had been the one with 90 percent market share that was declining, while IE was rising... Do you seriously think Google would still be taking this course of action?!? Would you then still be saying that Google just wanted to bring IE on par with Firefox? I for one seriously doubt they would do that. And THAT is the point: Google is a business, just like any other. They are not here to evangelize ANY browser; they are here to make good BUSINESS decisions, and if supporting 90 percent of all people who just happen to be using IE is the way to do it, they will. I'd hate to break it to you, but the evidence is crystal clear: If Firefox were the one with 90 percent market share, things would be quite different, and Google probably would not be bothering with IE at that point.
1) Microsoft is a very popular site
2) Most links to "buggy insecure browser" would point to IE
3) That may have, in addition, been google-bombed
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Is there a Canadian version? I thought the days of US-only were gone.
Best thing about this is if you edit SearchURLList.plist, you can include any search engine you like in the search engine list. I think any Mozilla browser will work this way, and there are third party tools for Safari that allow the same thing. I click the search field and I can choose whether to send my search query to Amazon, Google, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, eBay, Erowid, whatever! Much more useful in my opinion than an "I feel lucky" button.
Firefox does something way less techy than this already, typing words directly into the address bar uses google's Im Feeling Lucky feature to try and toss you in the right direction. Not based on a list of keywords, but pretty useful if you know what you are doing.
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Why the f**k is this only for Internet Explorer?
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Looks like some else already patented this concept: http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06101537__
"A universal electronic resource denotation, request and delivery system allows a user to locate information on a distributed computer system or network such as the Internet by knowing or guessing a short mnemonic alias of an electronic resource without the user having to know the physical or other location denotation such as the universal resource locator (URL) of the desired resource."
You might be pleased to know that Firefox already has this, though not very well publicised. Typing in anything that's not a website in the address bar takes goes through an "I'm feeling lucky" search, which this sounds like it is.
Also not terribly surprising considering that Netscape was a big proponent of Internet Keywords, back in the crappy ol' 4.x days.
Not that I know of. Got any friends in the US? You could probably have it shipped to them.
If you click a link too quickly after it's posted you get the "Nothing to see here" page. just refresh a time or two and it'll come up
A lot of high-mod posts on here are totally missing the point. The point isn't so much that IE is finally getting the equivelant of an "I'm feeling lucky" text box, it's getting one that is (supposedly) intelligent. When Google thinks the "I'm feeling lucky" link is what you want, it will take you there. If not, it takes you to the regular search results. That is what makes this (albeit questionably) interesting.
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Mozilla, or at least Firefox, has done this for a while -- it just goes to Google and grabs the first result (i.e. "I'm feeling lucky"). It's neat and I've used it, but I don't really use it a lot.
And the fact that if u take AOL broad band (even cable) you have to run a bloated software which doesnt run on Linux just to connect. (I tried it bcos they had a 45 days free trial and I was short of money ... but it was useless becos I couldnt use it on my linux machine)
interesting how instead of supporting the terribly insecure active x, google chooses to instead distribute it with an installer program.
Errr, this isn't new per say, except for maybe IE. It's been in the Mozilla Google toolbar for a few months now. I personally find it highly annoying.
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Have they enhanced the pop-up blocking feature? More and more pop-ups are slipping through google's toolbar. In 2-3 months it will probably be totally ineffective.
Sounds like we'll have to come up with a new name for the AOLisk google. Loogle?
Try it. You will see.
I suggest you read Slashdot
And the fact that if u take AOL broad band (even cable) you have to run a bloated software which doesnt run on Linux just to connect. (I tried it bcos they had a 45 days free trial and I was short of money ... but it was useless becos I couldnt use it on my linux machine)
So the grammer/spelling/general annoyingness problem doesn't go away even after you stop using AOL?
This is why I read /. I learn something new everyday. Thanks.
Just think of all the time we'll save by typing "slashdot" instead of "slashdot.org"!
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A: Yes, if you have an abortion, you will be able to get pregnant again without any complications.
holy crap, that's just irresponcible. I mean, it would be fine if it said "The short answer is yes", or at least "Yes, it's possible", but "without any complications"? Is this site pushing anti-abortion through evolution?
That's really a horrible thing to say.
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Firefox has a similar system built into the browser as a standard feature. But it seems a little dumbed down compared to Google's new toolbar system.
For example:
From what I can tell (And I'll be the first to admit this isn't the result of very intensive testing) the Firefox system simply takes you to whatever Google's first link is.
For example: Typing in the word "Wallets" in Firefox brings you to FatWallet.com which happens to be Google's first link on the keyword "wallets". This isn't what I'd call an appropriate redirect. (Of course, we'd all rather go to J.Fold.)
Since this amounts to an all-or-nothing, winner-takes-all search ranking competition, I expect the competition to be ranked #1 will increase even more if browser keyword searches become commonplace.
In a sense, what Google's doing here is taking what used to happen when you typed a non-domain'ed phrase into IE's address bar, a search at your selected search engine, and declaring that if the confidence score is high enough, equating that to an "I'm feeling lucky" click on the Google homepage.
In a sense, if the PageRank of hit #1 is so far away from the PageRank of hit #2... why bother with the selection screen, just assume that the user wants to see #1 and give it to them.
I wonder how many people will wind up here when they use it and forget to start the local httpd.
I've done that on firefox way to many times to count.
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I was once under the impression that a "Google bomb" was finding a short phrase that jumps directly to only one page on the entire internet, but upon consulting the wiki, I don't think so.
But anyway, is that sort of what this is like? Typing in keywords that result in a query with a single result ranked so highly above the rest that Google decided it just knows what you were looking for?
And what if I have search from the address bar turned off?
Read google's faq about this new feature.
Don't spread misinformation just because you feel so.
This feature was released more than 3 weeks back. Not sure why it made it to slashdot so late.
Also, who is this new slashdot editor- samzenpus?
The name seems familiar. http://slashdot.org/~samzenpus(5)
Any details about who samzenpus is and why doesn't he have any website/contact information?
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Options > More > under "Extra search Buttons" > select "I'm feeling lucky"
I don't use that one but I use the "search this site" feature all the time.
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Type in Democracy and it'll send you to the secret police's tracking central. In no time you'll get a trip to Lao Gai...
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I pwn this comment. "The Fine Print" says so.
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I am curious about the impact on commerce sites who currently use search engine rankings as part of their overall marketing mix.
Why would a search for "Harman Kardon" take me to HarmanKardon.com instead of showing me the Top 10 results which might include discount resellers of Harmon Kardon products? Instead, I, the websurfer, now must wade through informational content and somehow find my way to resellers officially listed at the HK site.
Why would a search for "Grand Canyon" *not* take me to GrandCanyon.com?
If I type in "tshirts" or "cheap tshirts" what would I get (i.e., how it is determined what the "real" website is for a given keyword/phrase)?
I could go on and on, but surely it is readily apparent, if adopted en masse and if keywords/phrases are increasingly populated with a single response, the results could be highly disadvantageous to a wide range of commercial websites (and information sites, for that matter). Many changes at Google have already had the side effect of destabilizing some small businesses who previously relied on (ethical) search engine marketing as a major component of their commerce exchanges (and the many customers who were thankful to have found that commercial site).
Those magically blessed by Google, through a process we do not understand, will be the rare few who benefit.
(In some small way, it reminds me of Microsoft whereby they have all the answer [singular] you need. And only their official channel benefits. Because the mass of people are not Slashdotters who understand how to use a wide variety of tools for a wide variety of purposes. Instead, the masses are funneled through a pre-determined strainer.)
Finally, is there some kind of legal liability if Google directs searches for (something like) "Britney Spears" to the wrong site? Or, perhaps, if they have the technology in place to point it to the right site, but instead show raw search results none of which contain the official site? It seems to me that its a bit problematic to be the One and Great Arbiter of what's the single correct response to a query.
Contrary to some other posts, this type of 'technology' (whether in FireFox or in a Google ToolBar or AOL Keyword) is *very* newsworthy in that it can change the landscape for a wide number of commerical (and non-commerical) website traffic.
What's new with Google tool bar
Two updates old.
... that when my mom starts typing sentences in the address bar, it will actually work!?!?
Address: I want to buy roses
Result: Welcome to buyroses.com!
*sigh* I'll miss the days of yelling at family members that a domain must end with dot something and an email address has an @ symbol.
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Can your address bar do this?
A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.
Back when Real Names was a business, I was working for a Movie Studio. The Real Names folks almost sounded threatening when they told us that we'd better snatch up our names before someone else did! Thankfully we just ignored them.
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I typed in konica and it didn't go to konica.com....piece of crap..
1. Go to your favorite web page (say www.nytimes.com).
2. Bookmark it (CTRL-D)
3. Go to the Bookmarks Manager (CTRL-B)
4. Scroll down to the entry you just added and press CTRL-I to edit it.
5. On the dialog that appears, there's a "Keyword" entry field, enter the "keyword" that you want to use for this web page you have bookmarked (example: nyt).
6. That's it!. Next time you enter "NYT" (unquoted of course) on the url entry field and press [enter] you're taken to www.nytimes.com
7. repeat for every web page that you want to create your personal keyword.
Some other suggestions:
1. Drop Internet Explorer and MS-Lookout! ^R^R^R^R^R^R Outlook.
2. Install Mozilla as your primary browser and e-mail client.
3. set your IE proxy to some non-existant internal IP address (10.x.x.x), on the exceptions list, put the windowsupdate page (makes it impossible for IE to reach out any page on the net, except windowsupdate).
FC
"Browse by name" or whatever it is called has existed for nearly 3 months in the google toolbar...
Also, this has been a basic feature of IE for as long as I can remember. If I type something into my address bar it shows an auto complete option:
Search for: "Text you entered"
That option uses your default search engine which is easily configurable to Google (and in fact automatically done for you if you click yes to a prompt during the Google Toolbar installation).
I understand FireFox is cool and all, but don't bash IE for lacking a feature (or just getting a feature) that is has always had in a slightly different form. The only difference here is that the newest version of the Google toolbar grants you a choice "I am going to run a search, I noticed you have selected to search using Google; Usually, are you feeling lucky?"
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anyone who has worked in ISP tech support knows that search bars are the bane of our existance
Type in "best browser" and you will get to.. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Online backup with Mozy, sounds like Ozzie, but more!
..What if you don't know what you're searching for..
:|
And as an American, I'm glad I can finally tell you that THIS IS ACTUALLY A SECRET ANTI-CANADIAN CONSPIRACY that has been going on for YEARS!
BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
How about adding a "trademark-domain" namespace scheme to Google, like "tm:music-distribution:apple", that finds only pages about Apple records, and not Apple Computers, using the existing trademark system?
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I hope they've fixed their popup blocker with this new version. It seems like some asshole marketroid has found a way around it to pop ads on the screen with the toolbar running. Yea, that's going to be a really successful ad campaign. Serve popups to people who have taken specific effort to block them. When will these idiots get a clue?
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This has actually been out for, say, 1 month? At least? How is this news?
Your Windows PC is my other computer.
IE can do this too, and has for a long time. Create a favorite and then type the name of it into the address bar. You'll go right there.
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It's called "Local Names," and it allows you to use short names for URLs.
The idea is that you should be able to use short names in:
We can presently use LocalNames in most wiki (any wiki that supports InterLinks,) in WordPress blogs, and in Firefox browsers.
The LocalNames spec doesn't describe what linking syntax should look like, but it'd generally be something like this: [[short name of URL][long text to link.]] So for example, you might write:
Which would render out as:
The names lists support defaulting, so that you don't have to name every URL you like. If someone makes a names list you like, (for example, the contents of a wiki,) you can just default to it.
There is already: a site for keeping your own names list, a web-browser redirection site, and a site for adapting a Wiki's title index into a Local Names list.
Python programmers may be interested in the Python library reference names, which you can use with FireFox to jump straight to any Python module's documentation.
Bloggers may be interested in MooKitty's plug-in for WordPress that lets you use LocalNames in blog posts.
Really, I get a little upset now when I have to look up URL's mid-post. I think, "Geeze, I've got the LocalName for this right on the tip of my tongue; Why do I have to actually resolve it to a URL myself, and then stick a href tags around it?"
Once you start using short names for stuff, you never want to go back.
big deal. firefox is doing this already. type keyword in the address bar, & it directly takes you to a page, mostly harmless ;).
I consider myself pretty damned good at Google search terms, and I'm still amazed how often what I consider really useful is buried a couple of pages down. The top hitters often make sense, but they are simply not what I wanted.
I have no intention of actually running IE to test it out but I assume it's a feature that can be enabled/disabled by the user. If so, making the choice available isn't any big deal. Now, if you can't go back to the default behavior, that's a different story.
All in all, me likes Google. Me wishes me had some pre-IPO shares; would like Google even better then.
- Leo
You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right.
it's not a bug that IE doesn't save you time/energy/hassle - it's a feature!
Try searching for failure on google.
It's all those skeet and trap discs they keep sending out everywhere.
Since nissan is Mr. Nissan and nissancars is the car company...
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- Sogudi allows to do almost the same thing with safari, though it is a bit different. :
For example
goo monkeys : will search google for monkeys
goo site:monkeys : will search the current site on google for monkeys
babfr www.yahoo.fr : will translate yahoo.fr from French to English using babelfish, etc.
All of this configurable, of course.
- Acid Search enhances the Safari's google search button, by adding a drop menu, so you can have more search engines, including Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature.
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Googling doesn't help (or didn't) now I hope project gutenberg will take me to the real site.
I guess slashdot should work in it. I say it is a good idea if it is in a seperate box, and DOESN'T take a search for 'orange' and take me to some mobile network site.
Don't be evil Mr.Google.
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Yep, this is actually true, I just tested it. It's too bad that the ie keyword search doesn't work as advertised thought.
Firefox uses "I'm Feeling Lucky", which always goes straight to the first hit. IE with the Google Toolbar uses "Browse By Name", which only goes to the first hit when Google is sure the first hit is the correct one. Otherwise, it displays search results.
You can make Firefox use "Browse By Name" by changing a hidden pref. Or you can make it use a normal Google search if you want.
The shareholder is always right.
I only recently found the 'about:cache' option. Where do I see a list of the lot?
http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/08/2 224240&threshold=-1&tid=217&tid=113&tid=21 8
Much better.
I've seen you post the exact same thing on other stories. You have already been debunked. The later version of firefox no longer has that issue.
I suppose it's the same as the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button, but I have a feeling more people would use the keyword feature on their local browser.
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You asume will use the logic, but most people is not rational, never deep think but react to stymulus in a animal-sque way.
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Edit prefs.js and add/replace
Or you can enable this by using "about:config" URL
Then go to the address bar and type: "news for nerds[Enter]"
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Do people even bother typing out whole keywords anymore? I started watching how I browse the internet, and mostly it's just revisiting sites I've already visited before. This means that they are already in my URL auto-complete.
To go to slashdot, I just use "sla" down arrow, enter. Works the same on Explorer and Firebird. I can revisit nearly all websites in 3 letters, down arrow, enter. Much easier than typing out whole names and comparable to using bookmarks.
If I'm looking for a new website, this keyword thing is ok. But honestly, I would rather go to google or use the googlebar for "buy roses", because I want to pick my own florist, not just whomever owns the "buyroses.com" domain.
Do some /.'ers actually still use IE?
What kind of (bad) drugs are they smokin?
From the Google Toolbar version information:
Version 2.0.112
New! Browse by Name - save time by typing names instead of URLs in your browser's address bar
Current version is 2.0.114. The browse by name feature has been in it for the last few months.
Welcome to now.
1. Type a keyword (or several) into the google toolbar
2. hit alt-enter (shortcut to feeling lucky)
I've experimented with this method and the newer one and I find the older one to be much more useful. The new method is less apt to give you a wrong page, but the old method turns out to be outstandingly accurate.
The newer method never works with obscure websites, but the other one does very frequently. Try "cgnet" by both methods, for example.
Another advantage to the alt-enter method is that you can get to the right internal links in one click. Try "ford explorer" both ways.
BTW, the newer feature has been available since v2.0.113 (2004-07-30), so it's not exactly news.
C'mon /., I noticed this like 2 weeks ago. I disabled this feature of the new google toolbar because I use 'search from address bar', ie: I type 'gg slashdot' to google for slashdot, you simply replace your search text with %s. This has been a feature of IE since IE5 with an add-on which puts "Quicksearch.exe" in your links folder, yet Microsoft did not officially supported it in IE6. I have noticed that the latest version of TweakUI XP has it under "Internet Explorer ->Search".
Any other ol' skool guys out there remember these? How about Kernel Toys and Power Toys for Win 95, they still work all the way up to XP! I love the Target function you can add to context menu for shortcuts, saves trip to Props then Find Target.
I wonder if Microsoft will start incorporating these old functions into Longhorn (dibs on credit if they do).