Homegrown gooogie
So, I just saw a post about gooogie, and it reminded me of my own, ‘did you mean’, page1.
You can achieve the same effect as gooogie by using the excellent firebug firefox extension to execute javascript in the context of the page you are viewing.
To achieve the effect:
- Open up google
- Type something into the search box that will generate a ‘did you mean’ response (tip. use any misspelled word)
- Use the handy XPather firefox extension to find the XPath expression of the suggested word (in italics). At this time, the relevant xpath seems to be ‘/html/body/p1/a/b/i’
- Fire up firebug and execute the following line in the console, substituting your desired suggestion first (the text on the page should change immediately)
document.evaluate('/html/body/p[1]/a/b/i', document, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent = 'THE_WORD_YOU_WANT_TO_SUGGEST'
- Finish by typing a new word into the search box and taking a screenshot to impress your friends (or not, as the case may be).
On second thoughts, just use gooogie, it’s much quicker and cross-browser compatible.
1 A handful of people have stated that they don’t get the ‘did you mean reevoo’ message when typing ‘review’ into google. Well, no, they wouldn’t. It’s completely made up. He he.
