Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
Yahoo! Shortcuts
Now this is cool. Since Dare works in the MSN group, maybe we’ll see something like this in Search.
!db - denver broncos
!weather - weather forecast in Destin, Florida
!msdn ’some technical thing” - search msdn
Setting them up is easy, you do it right from any search box apparently. Unfortunately, I don’t use Yahoo! Search, but I think I’ll throw it up there in my links bar and give it a spin. Just goes to show how a really slick little feature will at least get people to try out your stuff.
I know I come down on Google a lot here. But I mean come on, when was the last time they did something simple and innovative in search like this? Google was on a roll for a while, but I really haven’t seen anything neat like this from them lately.
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December 21st, 2005 at 1:21 pm
Jeremy said:
Google some of these….
weather destin,fl
stock VRSN
upc 043100059578 (Notepad on my desk!)
More here…
http://www.googleguide.com/shortcuts.html
Personalization of this is only a small step away and the infrastructure is already there. I know it is relatively unknown, but !anything seems a little to engineer-ish for me.
PS. Microsoft is the devil!!
December 21st, 2005 at 1:28 pm
Gary Krall said:
MSFT has actually had some features available in IE for awhile now that are similar that I have set up on my machine here at work–Jeremy showed me this.
If you go to: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.mspx you can download this little app which, although released for ie5 works with IE6, includes a feature called “Quick Search” which is very similar and does not require the Yahoo Toolbar to work.
In addition at home I use something called TweakUI which allows for default strings to be entered into IE in the form of navigation - acts like an enhanced keyword system: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx