MSN, like Google, do not number their search results. After writing a bookmarklet to number the results of a Google search, Barry Welford asked me how best to create the same thing for MSN - so I had a look at it. And here is the result, a bookmarklet that, when activated, will number the results of a search on MSN. It provides numbered results after page 1 correctly as well.
To use the bookmarklet, you must right-click on it and add it to your favourites. Then, next time you are looking at a page of results from a search in MSN, click the link in your favourites and the results will be numbered for you.
The bookmarklet should work in all JavaScript-compatible browsers.
UPDATE: Now also a Greasemonkey User Script
5 Comments
error with Firefox 1.0.2 :(
-> q has no properties
#1, kime, Italy, 27 April 2005. Reply to this.
It works fine in FF 1.0.4.
Thanks. I was looking for something like this a few months ago, and couldn't find anything.
#2, Bob Gladstein, United States, 21 June 2005. Reply to this.
great
#3, Anonymous, Canada, 4 October 2006. Reply to this.
MSN used to number their search results using an ordered list and set the correct results position on subsequent results pages using the now obsolete "start" attribute.
#4, Lewis Henshall, United Kingdom, 8 January 2007. Reply to this.
old stuff now!
thanks anyway
#5, dog, Unknown, 23 April 2007. Reply to this.