05-07-2006

Yahoo! Blog Search Bookmarklet

The ResearchBuzz blog had an article recently about the blog search features of Yahoo’s news site.

Start at Yahoo’s News Site. look at the search box in the upper middle part of the page. Note that you have the option to search news and blogs, just news, news photos, or video/audio. Do a search with the default setting, say for Fred.

Note on the results page that the news results are directly below your query box. The blog results, however, are to the right of the page. To just get blog results, click on the “More Blog results…” link at the bottom of those results. . .

The process to access Yahoo’s blog search results is a bit convoluted, so I put together a Yahoo! Blog Search bookmarklet.

Bookmarklets are short scripts, stored inside a browser bookmark, that can enhance your Web browser. See my other bookmarklet posts for more examples.

Posted by Matt in bookmarklets, tech | RSS 2.0

One Response to “Yahoo! Blog Search Bookmarklet”
  1. Ed Vawter Says:

    Matt, thanks for this, but if you have any Mac users the script needs to be modified slightly; instead of document.getSelection() on the Mac it needs to be window.getSelection().

    Also, I mentioned this in my podcast “Searching the Internet” (http://www.qdinformation.com/searching/2006/05/11/searching-the-internet-episode-003/) back on May 11 and will be mentioning it again it episode 006 which is dedicated to searching blogs.

    http://www.qdinformation.com/searching

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