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Search Jump User Script

Posted May 31, 2006 in Tools
  • Search Jump
    The Search Jump user script provides a quick way to compare searches on various engines (or just to jump to another engine when the one you are using has poor results). It provides a small box at the bottom right of a search window, with links to the same search at other major search engines.

The current list of engines supported is:

  • Google
  • Google UK
  • Yahoo
  • Yahoo UK
  • MSN
  • MSN UK
  • Ask
  • Yahoo Directory
  • DMOZ
  • AllTheWeb
  • AltaVista
  • LookSmart
  • Lycos

It is also relatively easy to add support for new search engines by modifying the script itself.

If you encounter any problems, please let me know. Otherwise, enjoy!

Search Jump User Script was posted May 31, 2006 in Tools and has been tagged with greasemonkey.

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Hi,

Im not sure what should do with this script :s where should it be installed?
That depends on which browser you use. If you are using Firefox, you need the Greasemonkey extension, and once that's installed, you will be able to right-click on the script and select "Install User Script".

If you are using Opera 8+ you will need to save the script to your user scripts folder.
And IE? What should do?
You know, you are The Man, you rock solid.
Very good job, i have used opera since 7.54 and never seen this wonderful possibility.
Many many many.... thanks!
I love ilovejackdaniels
Hey there, just a quick note, when I'm reading this article with Firefox, the Google ad box shows up at the end of the article and so, pushes the Comments and Recent Posts section to the right, making them overlap the right column.

Great site & article, keep up the good work!
This is a really handy script, and thank you for writing it.

Is there a way for "Hide" to be it's default? On MSN search it covers the "next" navigation links, hiding it each page to be able to get to the next results feels a bit awkward.
Very nice! Perfect for SERP research.

However, this appears to break Opera's nifty fast-forward function (Shift+X). Any idea why?

It doesn't matter if I trigger the function by using the keyboard, mouse gesture or click the fast-forward button – it's broken nevertheless.
Dude! We've probably met skateboarding in Brighton something like 27 years ago ;) Anyways, all the best and thanx for nice reading.
The Google ad seems to break the layout in Ff/Mac. The gray header background comes over the rightmost column.
/T
pablo uk
United Kingdom #9: November 2, 2006
been searching for all things CSS and this site is amongst the best.
Noticed that the google ads div container causes layout conflicts but at least I understand why now. Thanks for the CSS cheat sheet:-)
Fix required on ........
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/user-scripts/search-jump-user-script/
Philippe McIntyre
Canada #10: March 4, 2007
It's the closest thing I can get to replace Aggregate Google And Yahoo. How about, adding open all searches in tabs/windows options? That way the very lazy mouser can do all this in one click.

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