Or you could just use their advanced search form which puts that on the end for you.
Lorrin
· 1 year ago
I read this on SEOMOZ a few months ago. I have been using it ever since.
Bren
· 1 year ago
I passed your trick on to a friend, and he suggested adding it to the following: "If you create a toolbar bookmark with the following string as the URL you can have your searches work this way when you click on it. It will also automatically search on anything you have highlighted in the current page."
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You can also 'subscribe' to Google's beta search service. (I'm guessing it just dumps a cookie in your browser).
This allows you to see the results on a graphical timeline, among other formats, should that be a useful representation.
Check out, http://www.google.com/experimental/</p>
Or you could just use their advanced search form which puts that on the end for you.
I read this on SEOMOZ a few months ago. I have been using it ever since.
I passed your trick on to a friend, and he suggested adding it to the following: "If you create a toolbar bookmark with the following string as the URL you can have your searches work this way when you click on it. It will also automatically search on anything you have highlighted in the current page."
javascript:q=(document.getSelection)? document.getSelection(): document.selection.createRange();if(!q)q=prompt('Search:',''); if(q)location= 'http://www.google.com/search?q='+escape(q)+'&as_qdr=w';
Thanks! This is the most useful Google tip I've seen in a long time. I use it multiple times everyday.