Comments on: Bookmarklet To Trim Google Search URL

By: Virginia SEO

Virginia SEO — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:50:13 +0000

Arizona.. it might be a hint from Safari that you should switch over to Google Chrome.

By: arizona internet marketing

arizona internet marketing — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:44:30 +0000

Something happened so that on safari (on my mac) the URL address field and google search field are not showing. I cannot type anything if i want to get to a different website, etc. I can only use my bookmarks.

By: Trim Google Search URL – Now with Added Hash! | Online Sales

Trim Google Search URL – Now with Added Hash! | Online Sales — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:19:18 +0000

[...] getting the hash variation of the Google results URL here’s another update to the original Bookmarklet To Trim Google Search URL to also handle the “#” variation of Google [...]

By: Online Sales

Online Sales — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:52:03 +0000

Andy, could you email a search that breaks and I’ll fix the bookmarklet. The Redfly plugin is great but I spend more time in Chrome now and so developed some bookmarklets for similar functionality.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:22:30 +0000

I find that I need to email Google search results a few times a month, and not for any SEO reasons. Usually when I do this I’m offering alternatives to people who are looking for a service or a product and are not familiar enough with Google to build the best search query, but I do it for other reasons too. While the format of the URLs never really bothered me, I can see why they would if you dealt with people internationally a lot. Good work.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:58:40 +0000

This just breaks for me on the “q”s, though I tend to use the Google Global Plugin by Redfly more than anything else to clean up searches, so I can grab a local result with personalization off.

By: Online Sales

Online Sales — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:49:00 +0000

Thanks for that Bruno. I seldom search using iGoole so didn’t think to test from there.

By: Online Sales

Online Sales — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:47:47 +0000

Thanks for the comment Louis. I think you’re probably right, but it was a nice itch to scratch writing the bookmarklet.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:38:42 +0000

This bookmarklet do not work when you have this kind of URL (q= appear 3 times) :
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=google&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g-p3g7

This one seems better :
javascript:(function(){var windowLocationHref=window.location.href;var domainName=window.location.hostname;var myPathname=window.location.pathname;var searchArray=windowLocationHref.split(‘&’);var mySearch=”;for(myElement in searchArray){if(searchArray[myElement].match(/^q=/)){mySearch=searchArray[myElement];}}var searchOnly=domainName+myPathname+’?'+mySearch;self.location.href=’http://’+searchOnly;})();

By: Louis Halpern

Louis Halpern — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:26:29 +0000

I wonder how many people email the the URL of the Google search result rather than one of the results?

I think it’s a trend more prevalent with SEO’s rather than the mainstream public. I could be wrong.