Add-on to exclude domains from right-click?

[Hey Jude]

Thanks for the great explanation Hans :-) I will experiment a little bit with this.

[Hey Jude]

Select some text in your browser pane, a half-dozen words or so.
Then click on Andy's button.
The button-script should spring into life, obtain the search text from your previous selection, and drop it right into the search box.

It was nagging me that I hadn't accomplished this aspect, but now this works!! I didn't understand where you got "text" from so have tried it several times (I copied "ChrisGreaves wrote") and bingo! This is very cool. Now I'm happy with the results

Text plus My Google results.png

[Sundog]

You can replace experts-exchange.com with any URL of a site that you don't want to see in your search results.

Does this mean that each excluded site should be added to the script? If so, how would the string

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window.open("http://www.google.com/search?q=" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+")+" -site:experts-exchange.com")

be modified? Is there some way to automate this?

[agibsonsw]

You can amend " -site:experts-exchange.com" to " -site:experts-exchange.com -site:dodgy.com -site:another.com" (with a space between each site).
You can omit the minus sign if you wish to search for results from a particular web site. You can also enter part of a domain - such as "-site:.dn" (I believe). Is that Denmark or Germany?

You will still have to go through the sequence of editing it first in Notepad. You could 'probably' automate it to pop up with a second box requesting which site to omit,
but wouldn't that defeat the purpose? Andy.

[Hey Jude]

Is there a way to replace the regular "Google" search engine code with this one so it showed up in the drop down list of Search engines?

Having a customized search with Andy's name on it--well I guess it doesn't get any better than that

[Sundog]

Thanks for the response!

You could 'probably' automate it

By "automate," I'm thinking like a button "Add URL to Exclude List" that would grab the URL off the Clipboard (after you copied it--not automated, darn), open Notepad, append the URL to the right place in the script, Save the new script, append it to Andy's Button (and get me another cold -style Blue Moon from the fridge).

[agibsonsw]

It's technically possible to automate anything, even getting your beer for you!

If you have kept the .html file you could copy this part of it:

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("You didn't select any text. Enter a search phrase:", ""); if (q!=null) window.open("http://www.google.com/search?q=" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+")+" -site:experts-exchange.com"); void 0

Create a new Bookmark and paste your edited version of it into the Location box (in FireFox).

This is not automation but might make it easier to create new versions of the bookmark.

There might be a way to edit an existing bookmark, but my FireFox/Organize Bookmarks... dialog is empty, so I'm not sure.

[agibsonsw]

Is there a way to replace the regular "Google" search engine code with this one so it showed up in the drop down list of Search engines?

Having a customized search with Andy's name on it--well I guess it doesn't get any better than that

I'm honoured! But I think this might be a step too far

[Sundog]

There might be a way to edit an existing bookmark

Edit an existing bookmark by right-clicking it and select Properties. Here's what I put in the Description box for "Andy's Button:"

To add a new URL to exclude: Copy the new URL and paste it after "%20-site:experts-exchange.com" in Location box above. prefixing it with "%20-". E.g., "%20-site:experts-exchange.com%20-NewURL.domain". Then click Save. Your button will now exclude that additional URL from a search.

[HansV]

such as "-site:.dn" (I believe). Is that Denmark or Germany?

Neither - .dn doesn't exist.
The top-level domain for Germany is .de and that for Denmark is .dk.

[jscher2000]

Is there a way to replace the regular "Google" search engine code with this one so it showed up in the drop down list of Search engines?

Search engine plugins can be customized. This form creates plugins and has a link to the more detailed documentation: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/submitos.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ChrisGreaves]

Having a customized search with Andy's name on it

Might I suggest 'andy ?

[Hey Jude]

Having a customized search with Andy's name on it

Might I suggest 'andy ?

I have fooled around quite a bit with these search engine codes since this topic was introduced. I modified the plain Google search to include a box which will search only the website as opposed to Google at-large. That just means I created Google search engines for several of my friends' websites which also includes a box

Google indiviualized search.png

If the box is unchecked, it defaults to searching all of Google. My question was how to functionalize 'andy and add it to my drop-down list of search engines--even though it is easily executed thru the bookmark toolbar.

Taking it a step farther, I wished to add Eileen's Lounge search engine to my list as well. On some sites, you can automatically add them by clicking the down arrow on the search bar and you're given the option of adding a certain site to the list.

Perhaps this belongs in another thread now as well.

[agibsonsw]

someone might be interested in the attached HTML page which can hopefully be easily modified.

go_search.png

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Andy's Search Page</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
	function Go()
	{
		var sText;
		var sSites = "";
		sText = document.getElementById("searchText").value;
		if ( sText != "")
		{
			if (document.getElementById("ee").checked)
				sSites += " -site:experts-exchange.com";
			if (document.getElementById("br").checked)
				sSites += " -site:bigresource.com";
			window.open("http://www.google.com/search?q=" + escape(sText).replace(/ /g,"+") + sSites);
		}
		else
		{
			window.alert('You must enter something into the search box!');
			document.getElementById("searchText").focus();
		}
	}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<form id="myForm" action="">
<input type="text" id="searchText" />
<button type="button" onclick="Go()">Go Search</button>
<p>Choose sites to exclude:</p>
<p><input type="checkbox" id="ee" checked="checked" value="true" />Experts Exchange</p>
<p><input type="checkbox" id="br" checked="checked" value="true" />Big Resource</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

[Hey Jude]

Thank you!!!

[agibsonsw]

Because this is no longer running as a 'Bookmarklet' the complicated escape,replace combination may no longer be necessary, but I've left it in for the mo. Andy.

[agibsonsw]

I'm on a roll..

go_search2.png

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Andy's Search Page</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
	function Go()
	{
		var sText;
		var sSites = "";
		sText = document.getElementById("searchText").value;
		if ( sText != "")
		{
			if (document.getElementById("ee").checked)
				sSites += " -site:experts-exchange.com";
			if (document.getElementById("br").checked)
				sSites += " -site:bigresource.com";
			if (document.getElementById("other").checked && document.getElementById("otherT").value != "")
				sSites += " -site:" + document.getElementById("otherT").value;
			// window.open("http://www.google.com/search?q=" + escape(sText).replace(/ /g,"+") + sSites);
			window.open("http://www.google.com/search?q=" + sText + sSites);
		}
		else
		{
			window.alert('You must enter something into the search box!');
			document.getElementById("searchText").focus();
		}
	}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Andy's Search </h1>
<form id="myForm" action="">
<input type="text" id="searchText" />
<button type="button" onclick="Go()">Go Search</button>
<p>Choose sites to exclude:</p>
<p><input type="checkbox" id="ee" checked="checked" value="true" />Experts Exchange</p>
<p><input type="checkbox" id="br" checked="checked" value="true" />Big Resource</p>
<p><input type="checkbox" id="other" checked="checked" value="true" />
<input type="text" id="otherT" />&nbsp;&nbsp;(Type another site or domain)</p>

</form>
</body>
</html>

[Hey Jude]

I'm learning from looking at your code and modifying it. You are a whiz!!

[ChrisGreaves]

I'm on a roll..

Andy.
Stop!
You are freaking me out, and I'm on a cabbage roll!

[ChrisGreaves]

<form id="myForm" action="">
<input type="text" id="searchText" />
<button type="button" onclick="Go()">Go Search</button>[/code]

Might I humbly suggest:
<input type="text" id="searchText" size="100" />