Shorthand Notation For Searching BenNadel.com
Posted February 2, 2007 at 12:22 PM by Ben Nadel
I implemented this last week and have already grown to love it. It probably won't be useful to others but I thought I would throw it up here in case someone likes it. You can search my site by going to:
http://www.bennadel.com/search/YOUR_SEARCH_CRITERIA_HERE
... where everything after the "search/" will be the search criteria. This is great for me because I know what I have posted so I can be like "Oh yeah, where was that" and then search for it fast. It's not perfect, and if you search for "//" it gets the relative web paths messed up... but come on, it's just a short hand.
Reader Comments
Nice, what did you use to do it?
A lot of my site runs off of 404 error handling:
http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:286.view
I simply added one more piece of logic for the search section.
I forgot about that thing, he he. Did you check out the free rewrite module for IIS? Here is my quick post about using it: http://boyank.blogspot.com/2007/01/rewriting-urls-in-iis-with-ionics-isapi.html
I was searching your blog for something this morning so here is a quick bookmarklet I put together based on your search:
javascript:(function(){var url='http://www.bennadel.com/search/';searchString=prompt('Enter search string for BenNadel.com:','');searchString=((searchString==null)?'':searchString.replace(/^(\s+)?(.*?)(\s+)?$/gi,'$2'));if(searchString!=''){if(location.href.indexOf(url)==-1){var win=window.open(url+escape(searchString));}else{location.href=url+params+escape(searchString);}}})();
Ha ha, Boyan, that's awesome. I just tried it and it works like a charm :)
Ops,
I had a JavaScript error in the above script. Here is the updated one:
javascript:(function(){var url='http://www.bennadel.com/search/';searchString=prompt('Enter search string for BenNadel.com:','');searchString=((searchString==null)?'':searchString.replace(/^(\s+)?(.*?)(\s+)?$/gi,'$2'));if(searchString!=''){if(location.href.indexOf(url)==-1){var win=window.open(url+escape(searchString));}else{location.href=url+escape(searchString);}}})();
Hmmm, it worked for me, but I wasn't trying to break it or anything (I did just one word). Looks good.
