I was going through the archive of the old site, and came across a search page I wrote. It basically takes advantage of the way the GET process works in HTTP by forming special URL strings. I used it to group a bunch of search pages (not just search engines) into one page so I didn’t have to go to the page to search. For example, IMDB has flash and lots of pictures, which can be annoying when just trying to find a movie name.

I’m deleting that page though, because it’s still annoying to have to load a page to search. Of course, when I wrote it in 2001, there wasn’t really any other options! But now, (well for a while), Firefox has supported the search bar. And you can write your own search plugins. They’re easy to write, and use some simple JS to formulate the URL. It’s cool