Competitive Search Bookmarklet

Here’s a 5 minute tutorial on saving advanced search criteria in Google into a javascript bookmark. So you can select any text on any web page and run a search on that text using your advanced criteria.

I use it to track what my competitors are saying about any topic I run into.

Competitive Search Bookmarklet Tutorial from Brent Billock on Vimeo.

Here’s the code you need. Watch the video to see how to use it.

javascript:q%20=%20″”%20+%20(window.getSelection%20?%20window.getSelection()%20:%20document.getSelection%20?%20document.getSelection()%20:%20document.selection.createRange().text);%20if%20(!q)%20q%20=%20prompt(“You%20didn’t%20select%20any%20text.%20%20Enter%20a%20search%20phrase:”,%20″”);%20if%20(q!=null)%20location=”LOCATION GOES HERE”%20+%20escape(q).replace(/%20/g,%20″+”);%20void%200

Special thanks to squarefree.com, whose google search bookmarklet I adapted for this tutorial.

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