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Bahits.com ^ | 01/25/2014 | Doug Weems

[FreeAtlanta]

Bookmarklets can be really helpful. Let me know what you think.

[FreeAtlanta]

ping

[prisoner6]

Looks good! Will try it later tonight, thanks!

[TomServo]

I never use full titles when searching for articles.

Just a significant word (or two) from the title..

Works 99% of the time.

[WXRGina]

Hey, thanks very much, F.A.! :-)

[FreeAtlanta]

Most welcome! If you find pages that have problems, reply back here, through FRmail, or on my blog.

[skinkinthegrass]

;-)

[FreeAtlanta]

Thanks Tom,

I do the same with the tool. I try to trim off the newspaper or site titles, some of the characters that cause problems and then trim the overall title down to a few words.

The biggest problems I have found are when the article gets posted to FR with additions at the beginning of the title or changes - including typos.

[TomServo]

Maybe you can regex parentheses out too - for those who insist on editorializing them..

[FreeAtlanta]

That is a great idea. I will work on it tonight or tomorrow. Right now, the kids want to watch a movie we rented.

[Mark]

Can’t I just post a thread asking others in a search?(/Humor)

[SunTzuWu]

Bookmark.

[harpu]

Hmmmm...4later

[FreeAtlanta]

Thanks Everyone!

I just updated to version 1.3, I added a bonus Bookmarklet on the blog that will open your “My Comments” in a popup, and I fixed the “Reply To All” to not duplicate the Freepers it finds on the thread.

This update has Tom’s suggestion about taking out everything between [and] so that people can continue to customize their titles without messing up the searching. Unfortunately, if a real title has the blocks, the words in the blocks will be removed. I don’t think it will be much of a problem, but it it does let me know.

thanks,

FRAtl

[Bon of Babble]

Works beautifully on my MacPro. Went straight into the bookmark bar and worked the first time.

Tested it with “Justin Bieber” article, LOL, and it worked great.

[raybbr]

Tech ping

[ConservativeMind]

Thank you!

[cynwoody]

Nice work!

For the hard cases, you can resort to Google. It's pretty good at staying on top of the latest FR content.

Example:

site:freerepublic.com intitle:"Article Search"

I just tried the above, and it returned the current thread and a page from 2004.

[SunkenCiv]

This is a great idea!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Hello,

How can I COMPLETELY remove your bookmarklets from my computer?