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Xenomachina: Easier Links with Google AJAX Search API
By Martin English | January 14, 2008
If you blog, you should get the Linkify bookmarkletthat Laurence Gonsalves wrote. To install it, you just drag the Linkify bookmarket to your personal toolbar.
Laurence describes how to use it on the linkify page, but very basically, when you’re writing in a blank field (like writing a post),
1) you select some text you want to turn into a link,
2) activate the bookmark, which brings up a search pane on the right side of your browser window for the term(s)s you’ve highlighted,
3) Click on “create link” next to the search result you want to link to.
The search pane will disappear, and the text you selected earlier (in the textarea) will be replaced with a link. The link’s href will be the URL of the search result you picked and its text will be the original selected text.
The bookmarklet works in firefox 1.x and 2.x and Opera, but not in Safari or IE.
UPDATE: don’t go to linkify.com – different site altogether
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