Search and Translation Bookmarklets
These bookmarklets are useful for performing searches and translations on keywords or sentences.
To use a bookmarklet, simply click the link (or, if you use Explorer, drag it to another browser window).
To save the bookmarklet, add it to your favorites/bookmarks or drag the link to your desktop. If you use Explorer or Opera you can import all the bookmarklets in one easy operation.
| Bookmarklet | Works in frames | Browser support |
| Hilite Text Highlights all occurrences of specific text. You can either select some text before running the bookmarklet, or subsequently specify the text in a prompt. Explorer: Hilite Text Last upd. 28 Nov. 2004 |
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| Search Google Select some text on the current page, run the bookmarklet, and a new window will open with a Google search of the text. If no text is selected you will be presented with a prompt. Note: Netscape 4 and Opera 7 deselect any selected text when you click a link. This means you must add the bookmarklet to your bookmarks in order for it to work. Explorer: Search Google Netscape 4: Search Google Netscape 6+, Mozilla, Opera 7+: Search Google Last upd. 19 Jan. 2003 |
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| Search Dictionary.com Select some text on the current page, run the bookmarklet, and a new window will open with a Dictionary.com search of the text. If no text is selected you will be presented with a prompt. Note: Netscape 4 and Opera 7 deselect any selected text when you click a link. This means you must add the bookmarklet to your bookmarks in order for it to work. Explorer: Search Dictionary.com Netscape 4: Search Dictionary.com Netscape 6+, Mozilla, Opera 7+: Search Dictionary.com Last upd. 19 Jan. 2003 |
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| Wikilookup Looks up the currently selected word in the Wikipedia open-content encyclopedia. Note: Netscape 4 and Opera 7 deselect any selected text when you click a link. This means you must add the bookmarklet to your bookmarks in order for it to work. Explorer: Wikilookup Netscape 4: Wikilookup Netscape 6+, Mozilla, Opera 7+: Wikilookup Last upd. 25 Oct. 2005 |
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| Wikirandom Selects a random wiki article link from the current Wikipedia page. You can use it as a way to "randomly" acquire facts. Try it for half an hour and see how much you learn. Note: Each Wikipedia page does have a "random article" link in the navigation panel. However, the link selects an entirely random article, whereas this bookmarklet only chooses between the articles which are linked from the current page, thereby providing you with a more closely related path of random articles (well, most of the time). Note: Incidentally also works with Uncyclopedia. Explorer: Wikirandom Netscape 6+, Mozilla, Opera 7+: Wikirandom Last upd. 25 Oct. 2005 |
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| Translate Selection Select some text on the current page, run the bookmarklet, and a new window will open, loading AltaVista's Babel Fish translator with the selected text. You can then translate the text. Note: Netscape 4 and Opera 7 deselect any selected text when you click a link. This means you must add the bookmarklet to your bookmarks in order for it to work. Explorer: Translate Selection Netscape 4: Translate Selection Netscape 6+, Mozilla, Opera 7+: Translate Selection Last upd. 19 Jan. 2003 |
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| Translate Page Translates the current page or frameset from one language to another using AltaVista's Babel Fish translator. The result opens in a new browser window. All browsers: Translate Page (Eng-Fre) Translate Page (Fre-Eng) Translate Page (Eng-Spa) Translate Page (Spa-Eng) Translate Page (Eng-Ger) Translate Page (Ger-Eng) You can modify the bookmarklet to other languages. See the options at AltaVista's Babel Fish Translation Service Last upd. 25 Oct. 2005 |
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| Validate Page (Hitbox) Validates the current page (or another page of your choice) by running it through the HTML validator of Hitbox.com. The validator checks for HTML syntax, broken links, load time, meta tags, and spelling. Note: If the page is within a frameset the default page (usually default.htm, index.htm, or such) of the frameset is validated rather than the current page. All browsers: Validate Page (Hitbox) Last upd. 22 Jan. 2003 |
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See also these bookmarklets: layout, links, navigation, debugging, developer, experimental, ActiveX.
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