40 productivity-boosting search bookmarklets

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By Mike Williams
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Instantly add powerful new search features to your browser

Image searching bookmarklets

Need a picture, graph or diagram? Just highlight relevant text on a web page and click one of our image-finding bookmarklets. Or you can select one without highlighting anything, in which case you'll be prompted for your search terms.

Search Google images

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Enter your search here", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0

Search Yahoo images

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Enter your search here", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0

Search Bing images

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Enter your search here", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0

Search flickr

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Enter your search here", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0

Search photobucket

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Enter your search here", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://photobucket.com/images/" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0

Image search

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Video searching bookmarklets

With hundreds of millions of videos online it's not always easy to track down what you need, but our bookmarklets can help speed up the process. Highlight keywords on a web page and click one for immediate search results.

Search YouTube

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Enter your search here", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0

Search MySpace video

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Enter your search here", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://searchservice.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=sitesearch.results&type=MySpaceTV&qry=" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+")+"&submit=Search"; void 0

Search dailymotion

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Enter your search here", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0

Search MetaCafe

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Enter your search here", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://www.metacafe.com/tags/" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0

Search blip.tv

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Enter your search here", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://blip.tv/search?q=" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0

Video search

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Mike Williams
Mike Williams
Lead security reviewer

Mike is a lead security reviewer at Future, where he stress-tests VPNs, antivirus and more to find out which services are sure to keep you safe, and which are best avoided. Mike began his career as a lead software developer in the engineering world, where his creations were used by big-name companies from Rolls Royce to British Nuclear Fuels and British Aerospace. The early PC viruses caught Mike's attention, and he developed an interest in analyzing malware, and learning the low-level technical details of how Windows and network security work under the hood.