{"id":510,"date":"2008-09-03T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T18:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=510"},"modified":"2008-09-08T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T18:32:09","slug":"google-results-walker-firefox-addon-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2008\/google-results-walker-firefox-addon-unleashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Results Walker Firefox addon unleashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been extremely irritated by the simplicity of google&#8217;s search results.  They require a lot more manual work to navigate than I can tolerate, browsing forward and backward, spawning a new tab to save interesting result, clicking between tabs, etc.  Way too much clicking and jumping and tabbing and loss of context!<\/p>\n<p>My lack of tolerance fuels my attempts to engineer workarounds.  There&#8217;s no way you can live without google&#8217;s results any more, so the workarounds have centered on re-engineering the results page.  The old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedigitalmachine.com\/wiki\/index.php\/GoogleFramed\">perl scraper<\/a> that I&#8217;ve used for the past 4-5 years has required an update every six months or so, but I&#8217;ve kept with it until the recent past (it no longer works).  This weekend, I hammered out a better way (please insert trumpet blare):<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/8735\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google Results Walker in action\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedigitalmachine.com\/wiki\/images_tdm_wiki\/Screenshot_googleresultswalker.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"Google Results Walker in action\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=center src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/news\/2008\/googleresultswalker_icon.png\"> The Google Results Walker Firefox addon<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted it to <a href=\"http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\">the Mozilla Addons site<\/a> (aka AMO), and I&#8217;m learning the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Update:Editors\/ReviewingGuide\">hoops<\/a> through which you have to jump to get &#8220;published&#8221; there.  Looks like I&#8217;ll need lots of good reviews.  If you want to help me out, sign in to the Mozilla addons site and post a review at the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/8735\">public page<\/a>.  NOTE that you have to actually provide a relevant full-sentence comment with the review, or, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Update:Editors\/ReviewingGuide#Moderating_Reviews\">Addon Reviewing Guide<\/a>, it will just be deleted!  Geesh!<\/p>\n<p>There is a huge backlog of requests for new addons to be published.  In the end, I may have to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fligtar.com\/2008\/07\/21\/get-involved-with-addons\/\">sign up to be an addon editor<\/a> to get the job done.  :><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a little rough and there&#8217;s a lot more I want to do with it.  Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedigitalmachine.com\/wiki\/index.php\/GoogleResultsWalker_Firefox_addon\">wiki page<\/a> for the current todo list.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been extremely irritated by the simplicity of google&#8217;s search results. They require a lot more manual work to navigate than I can tolerate, browsing forward and backward, spawning a new tab to save interesting result, clicking between tabs, etc. Way too much clicking and jumping and tabbing and loss of context! 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