Comments on: FF "search this site" plug-in

Question: FF "search this site" plug-in

chefscotticus — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:52:45 -0800

Do you know of any Firefox search plug-in that will "search this site" (being the current *websitesite*) for text entered in the search box?

I'm thinking in the search engine one, a search plug-in that would search all of www.lifehacker.com, for example, with the text entered. (essentially, it would automatically take care of the "site:lifehacker.com" string part of the google search). oh well, it would be very cool...

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:08:55 -0800

Why not use the Google Toolbar or Googlebar Lite? They both have search-this-site buttons.

By: ajr

ajr — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:56:17 -0800

Drag the Google Site Search bookmarklet from this page onto your toolbar.

By: onhazier

onhazier — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:34:38 -0800

Try Ctrl-F. It opens a little search box at the bottom of the window and will search just the current page you're viewing.

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:05:52 -0800

Dave's Quick Search Deskbar is fantastic.

Once installed it is very easy to add aliases to do site specific searches. For example, I use the following aliases:

yhmf|yh %s -"All posts tagged with" -"MetaFilter comments by" site:www.metafilter.com
yham|yh %s -"Ask MetaFilter questions by" -"Ask MetaFilter answers by" site:ask.metafilter.com

So when I type:

yhmf [search term]

I get a yahoo site specific search of metafilter for [search term] with a lot of the repeated pages removed. The yham alias is for AskMe of course.. Actually, I trimmed them down a bit so it doesn't force your browser window too wide while reading this question..

By: tiamat

tiamat — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:53:07 -0800

ajr, that link is great! That could be the start of a good searching post in the blue.

By: chefscotticus

chefscotticus — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:52:30 -0800

anyone know how to turn that bookmarklet into a FF search plugin?