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March 01, 2000Google Offers Search ButtonsSearch engine Google ( http://www.google.com ) announced new browser buttons yesterday. The Google Search button allows you to highlight any word on any Web page and click the button for a google search of that word. The Google Scout button allows you to highlight any word of any Web page and click the button to get suggested Web sites. The press release of the announcement is at http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000229/ca_google_1.html, while the buttons themselves are at http://www.google.com/buttons.html< /a> . I worked with this a little bit. If you just click on the button without highlighting a word, a JavaScript box pops up and asks you what word you want to search for. If you highlight several words in a row Google treats it as "boolean and" -- it will include all words in a search. You can search for a phrase by typing your query into the JavaScript box in quotes: typing "soybean futures" into the popup box (with quotes) found results for the phrase soybean futures. "soybean futures" -stock -market was also trasmitted exactly. Now, one thing you can do with Google is use the + modifier (which means that the query item MUST be included in the query results) within phrases on stopwords; words that Google would ignore otherwise because they're so common. For example, if you search for "a soybean futures" on Google, Google will ignore the "a" part and just search for "soybean futures." But you can force Google to search for the exact phrase a soybean futures by adding + to a so it looks like this: "+a soybean futures" That query says to Google, "You must search for that phrase and I know it has a stopword in it, and I don't care. Search for the phrase just like that." If you try to insert that kind of query into the JavaScript pop-up box, it won't work, for example: "+a soybean futures" -stock -market put into the JavaScript popup Google search box turns out like this: " a soybean futures" -stock -market The top query ("+a soybean futures...") gets you only 3 results. The bottom query gets you 230. This is not a show-stopper by any means, but you should know that this search button doesn't work exactly like the search engine interface. Posted to Search Engines-Google
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