While not following on from my last post (Twitter as a search engine?), this is about Twitter and search.
Via a Greasemonkey script we’ve added a search box to Twitter that will take you to their newly acquired search, yes.. their current interface doesn’t have a search through tweets function.
Greasemonkey users, here’s the install link.
Here’s an experiment. Since Twitter acquired & integrated Summize ($15m Cash+Stock) they’ve had search. A better search then Twitter had previously. So, why not try it as your default search?
For Safari:
perl -pi -e 's/%@.google.com\/%@\?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8/search.twitter.com\/search\?no=%@,%@&q=%@/g' /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari(this should all be on one line within Terminal)For Firefox:
This is my checklist (in no particular order) that I run through whenever I’m considering starting a new project, obviously not everything is applicable for every project. Thought I’d share.
I’ve decided I’m going to try Mahalo out, after I saw Chris Baskind’s tweet. I’ve played with it a little, but it’s not my default search - I’m going to test it properly, so now, it is my default search, from Safari (current browser of choice).
I couldn’t find any howto’s on changing the default search in Safari to Mahalo, so here it is:
perl -pi -e 's/google.com\/%@\?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8/mahalo.com\/Special:Search\?%@=%@&0=00/g' /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari(this should all be on one line within Terminal)P.S. I take no responsibility if it breaks Safari. If it does breaks, just uninstall and reinstall Safari and all should be fine. If it’s not, leave a comment and I’ll try and figure that out for you (within limits)