Hi. I'm Dave, the internet addict behind FeedbackFair, Cheatography and Envoy.

LetMeGoogleThatForYou Bookmarklet

I'm sure someone must have already done this and I'm just incapable of finding it (despite Googling it myself) but I figured that the only thing missing from the brilliant LetMeGoogleThatForYou was a bookmarklet, so I made one: LetMeGoogleThatForYou. Highlight text, click bookmarklet and voila - patronisation on demand.

LetMeGoogleThatForYou Bookmarklet was posted on 22 November 2008 and has been tagged with bookmarklet.

26 Comments

Great. Thanks for that tool! An URL generated here will follow favorite sentence: "Ask Google Before Asking Dumb Questions"

#1, ino, Unknown, 22 November 2008. Reply to this.

Terrific!!!!!!

#2, Bill, Unknown, 22 November 2008. Reply to this.

Brilliant. The amount of times I've had to post a basic google link to a retarded question now I can give them clear instructions on how to follow the same simple process I did.

#3, John Knowles, United Kingdom, 24 November 2008. Reply to this.

Hehehehe tis a cool idea, bit snobby but cool.

#4, Tim, Germany, 25 November 2008. Reply to this.

Interesting application. I can see many uses for this - both good and bad.

#5, Dan, Canada, 25 November 2008. Reply to this.

An interesting tool worthy of discovery and good exposure.

#6, Mexabet, Australia, 25 November 2008. Reply to this.

Its great. I will use.. Thanx

#7, Ozvaldo, Turkey, 4 December 2008. Reply to this.

I am absolutely ecstatic about this site. I've used it already more times than I can count on half of my left hand!

#8, Martin, United States, 5 December 2008. Reply to this.

Great but I think its just pointless and can never see it being used. Just my POV.

Replies: #25.

#9, Tom Taylor, United Kingdom, 6 December 2008. Reply to this.

Why not to use this:

javascript:document.location='http://www.google.com/search?q='+escape(window.getSelection());

instead of letmegooglethatforyou.com?

#10, Peter, Slovakia, 9 December 2008. Reply to this.

Peter: LMGTFY includes a patronising turorial :)

#11, DaveChild, United Kingdom, 9 December 2008. Reply to this.

Emmm hate to burst you bubble but emm http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/

#12, Matt, United Kingdom, 11 December 2008. Reply to this.

@Matt: No bubble burst - LMGTFY isn't my site. I just made a bookmarklet.

#13, DaveChild, United Kingdom, 11 December 2008. Reply to this.

Excelent, I feel better now, btw I have been looking at Active Parity, I really like how its made up. You must be really good for working for them :)

#14, Anonymous, United Kingdom, 11 December 2008. Reply to this.

Results from LMGTFY and results from google are the same??
Dave, can you comment something good about LMGTFY? So I am convinced that it is the site that we should talk/blog about.

#15, Manet yim, Australia, 2 January 2009. Reply to this.

Wow, that's the funniest thing! Couldn't help to bust out loughing seeing that pointer move! :D

#16, chris, United States, 11 January 2009. Reply to this.

Some people ask questions (on forums etc) because they don't know what to Google. It's not always that they are too daft to google it.

#17, Rimian, Australia, 11 January 2009. Reply to this.

http://shutupandgoogleit.com/ though the LMGTFY site does look nicer

#18, Storm, Australia, 14 January 2009. Reply to this.

Thanks for the write-up. For a disturbing peek into the psyche of the internet, also check out the LMGTFY live stream: http://live.lmgtfy.com

#19, Ryan McGeary, Unknown, 29 January 2009. Reply to this.

i also prefer shutupandgoogleit.com ;)

#20, William, Unknown, 31 January 2009. Reply to this.

The whole point of LMGTFY.com is that it
a) Patronises the user
b) Looks pretty much like google
c) Gives them the results after a short delay

You're actually helping the person, just taking the piss first. Unlike [scuse the acronyms] JFGI (which is just a rant) and SUAGI which looks naaasty.

#21, Jon, United Kingdom, 12 March 2009. Reply to this.

Excellent, I going to have to get creative to think of some uses for that

#22, Roxbourne, United Kingdom, 31 March 2009. Reply to this.

Thanks for that tool

#23, buyvend.com, iran, 25 May 2009. Reply to this.

Yes! I have been looking for this bookmarklet.

#24, Toronto Guy, Canada, 20 July 2009. Reply to this.

SWEET! Finally LOL

#25, Blackcell, United States, 4 December 2009. Reply to this.

Great, I knew I couldn't be the first to think of this. I've modified your script slightly and use the following:

javascript:document.location = 'http://lmgtfy.com/?q='+escape(this.f.q.value);

This takes the value from the search box on the current google search and creates a lmgtfy link (Assumes that the current page is google search and the user is using a non-IE browser).

I like it better this way, but "to each their own".

#26, dsclementsen, 7 December 2010. Reply to this.