Comments on: Google Testing Feature that Adds Site Search to Google Toolbar

By: Alternate Realities - May 4, 2007 » Reality Wired

Alternate Realities - May 4, 2007 » Reality Wired — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:15:27 +0000

[...] over at ProBlogger showed us a potential new feature Google might be adding to the Google Toolbar. (Interesting, it didn’t work for [...]

By: markus941

markus941 — Fri, 04 May 2007 16:22:12 +0000

Or you can just use this: Google site search bookmarklet. It's adds one-click ability to Google search for any website you're currently on.

By: Duplicate Content Checker

Duplicate Content Checker — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:29:34 +0000

A pop-up within a toolbar…come to think of it, it seems too helpful, like it’s almost unnecessary. However, it could come in handy one day. They should add a feature where you get to choose to switch it on or off. It would be helpful if it wasn’t so, what’s the term, touch-and-go.

By: Paula Neal Mooney

Paula Neal Mooney — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:13:17 +0000

Yes, I noticed this yesterday but didn’t set it up.

All I want to know is: Does this count towards our Google Search earnings?

Think I’d better investigate further…

By: JoLynn

JoLynn — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:37:58 +0000

I’ve never encountered this before and I use your google search several times a day, as well as on my own site.

Eric, thanks for the tip re: how to create your own google toolbar!

That’s also a good question from Linux OS whether or not you get paid if a user searches your site using your button on their toolbar…

By: Cindy Sue Causey

Cindy Sue Causey — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:09:27 +0000

Haven’t seen it, either, but don’t have the toolbar.. Hadn’t installed it for the very reason that I just imagined things would slow down that much more..

A definite nix on popups, any popups, from here, too, for accessibility reasons with initial concerns, as always, being disabilities related to manual dexterity..

Would be more supportive of a campaign where they publicly offered publishers related text and image links to place on their own works..

You know, coming to mind is that it takes the power of the original publisher knowing who’s searching what on their site(s) out of that same publisher’s hands……….

Well, like that doesn’t already happen..

But still… Just sayin’.. ;)

By: leigh

leigh — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:44:44 +0000

This happened to me the other day with my film blog, it would get annoying if it happened on every site, but I think it’s just sites it recognises you search allot. In my case the other site that did it was imdb.com which I do indeed use allot.

By: Duplicate Content Checker

Duplicate Content Checker — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:18:42 +0000

It can be useful to some, sure, but I think it is more creative than it is useful. Most people resort to quicksearch; having another pop-up…I don’t know. The icons on the pop-up are pretty cool though.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:57:10 +0000

I noticed this last month -- was completely surprised. I have a screen shot in that article, is that the one you saw too?

By: Linux operating system

Linux operating system — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:32:24 +0000

Off course it is useful, for you as a blogger :), as you will be on every google bar of those who decided to add it.
I wonder if you are going to get paid for the searches they made on their google bar! using your site’s option :)

By: Sejo Magno

Sejo Magno — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:28:32 +0000

Actually if you right-click (or ctrl-click in Mac) any search box of any webpage, you can “Generate a Custom Search”, the same way as if the pop-up had appeared. What I don’t know is when or where does the pop-up appear…

By: Techie Buzz

Techie Buzz — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:16:40 +0000

Could not replicate it either, were you searching using the toolbar or your custom search box for google?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:55:40 +0000

I could see it as a useful feature. However, since I do not use the Google tool bar, I wouldn’t be able to use it. I like Google and use it extensively. I just don’t want too many extra tool bars.

By: Eric Tischler

Eric Tischler — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:20:57 +0000

Update: I just read a post on the front of pureblogging.com that tells how to create your own google toolbar button. Check it out.

By: Eric Tischler

Eric Tischler — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:18:33 +0000

If you click on the “Add Search Type…” link at the bottom of the dropdown it takes you to a site where you can find a lot of buttons for specific sites. I did a search for the word blog and found one for freshblogger.com and pureblogging.com and a lot of others, but not problogger.net. You might write to them and find out how to get listed.

I think it would indeed be a useful thing to add, possibly bringing visitors back to you site more often.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:13:24 +0000

I think thats a feature of the web-history-feature of google. You get in every search field a popup, that asks you, if you want to save this search to your history. Its only available with the latest toolbar-plugin and you can switch it off (as I did, so I cannot provide a screenshot). Try a search anywhere with switched on webhistory and the popup will come again.

By: mblair

mblair — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:41:36 +0000

I had this happen to be twice either yesterday or the day before at istockphoto — I thought it might be a new feature that could be autodiscovered by toolbar. I did think the popup was a little bit annoying, and it kept reoccurring. I’m wondering if it only offers it up if buttons already exist in Google’s button gallery. Looking forward to finding out what’s cooking with this one.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:25:17 +0000

I’ve noticed it the past few days. I think it has popped up for me on Wikipedia, Facebook, and even a certain torrent site… (arrrr)

By: RT

RT — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:08:45 +0000

Nope doesn’t work for me but if it did I would be ANGRY cos I hate pop ups! haha!