Comments on: Preview Google search results with this extension

By: Loajda

Loajda — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:17:28 +0000

Thanks guys!

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By: adot's notblog*

adot's notblog* — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

extension of the week
Via Redemption in a Blog, this extension, Google Preview, is one you’ve got to try. It looks like it uses Thumbshots to slot in a screenshot of the site next to the Google search results. It’ll also pull the image from Amazon results if one exists and …

By: Strang's Blog

Strang's Blog — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

GooglePreview – an extension to Firefox
Redemption in a blog tells about an extension to Firefox that allows you to get previews of your search results on Google. The extension is called GooglePreview and redemption in a blog has analyzed what it does….

By: Gadgetopia

Gadgetopia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Google Preview
If you’ve been following the search engine wars, the latest craze the kids are into these days is providing thumbnails of the web sites that return in search results. Google, however, sticking to the ‘less is more’ approach, doesn’t have…

By: Full(o)bloG

Full(o)bloG — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thumbshots
L’ Open Thumbshots Project è un sito che permette di creare dinamicamente dei thumbnail snapshot (una renderizzazione su bitmap per intenderci) del vostro sito, tutto quello che c’è da fare è copiare il relativo logo () nella pagina dove sarà present…

By: Shetil

Shetil — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Google with previews
As an active user of Firefox (test nightlies and reads the forum) I sometimes stumble over great ideas related to the browsing experience. And I am astonished by the creativity and talent that lies within the open source community. This…

By: adot's notblog*

adot's notblog* — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

By: Hemebond

Hemebond — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nevermind, it seems to be working fine now. Strange, because it was only working when I changed from .com.au to .com.

By: adot's notblog*

adot's notblog* — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

By: Hemebond

Hemebond — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Does this only work if you use http://www.google.com? It doesn’t seem to load anything when I use http://www.google.com.au.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

According to this page, only DMOZ listed sites have thumbshots. Check e.g. a Google search for Eric Meyer's non root (!) page on CSS, which is DMOZ listed.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

According to this page, only DMOZ listed sites have thumbshots. Check e.g. a Google search for Eric Meyer's non root (!) page on CSS, which is DMOZ listed.

By: Rory Parle

Rory Parle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pretty neat. I’ve made a bookmarklet to get a preview of the current page: http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf?url=‘ + escape(document.location.href));})()”>thumbnail

By: Cheah Chu Yeow

Cheah Chu Yeow — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cool! The thumbshots thing (as in the script, not your bookmarklet) only seems to work for the root of a domain though.

By: Cheah Chu Yeow

Cheah Chu Yeow — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rory: Good question. You got me curious too so I took a look at the source of the XPI.

There are 3 main preview images: Amazon, stocks, and others (normal webpages).

For Amazon search results, it gets the product images (there’s boilerplate URLs for where these images are). Same thing for Yahoo stocks.

For your run-of-the-mill websites, it uses this script:

http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf?url=

That gives you a thumbnail of the url you pass to it. So this link will give you a thumbnail screenshot of this blog.

Pretty clever work, I’d have to say.