rjmccallumbigl/support-engineer-super-search-bookmarklet

Highlight text and click the bookmarklet to search the text on several sites.

Support-Engineer-Super-Search-Bookmarklet

Highlight text and click the bookmarklet to search the text on several sites. Each entry opens in a new tab.

Instructions

1. In your browser (Edge or Chrome), create a new bookmark and add it to your bookmark bar.
2. Right click -> Edit
3. Replace the Name with something memorable (I named mine "MS-SE-Super-Search").
4. Replace the URL with the script: https://github.com/rjmccallumbigl/Support-Engineer-Super-Search-Bookmarklet/blob/main/MS-SE-Super-Search.js
5. Highlight a term you want to search on the current page. Click the bookmarklet in the bookmarks bar. It should search for your term on several sites in new tabs.
   • Warning: as is, it opens up over a dozen tabs, if you wanna reduce this, modify the javascript in VSCode or some other text editor and remove the sites e.g. window.open(...);
6. If you just click on the bookmarklet without highlighting text, you can search the same several sites for a particular query you need to type

Current list of searched sites:

• https://supportability.visualstudio.com/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/
• https://internal.support.services.microsoft.com/en-us/
• https://www.google.com/
• https://www.bing.com/work/ (tabs to the left search docs available to you, SharePoints, Teams convos, support KBs, etc)
• https://portal.microsofticm.com/
• https://github.com/ (issues)
• https://github.com/ (discussions)
• https://serverfault.com/
• https://stackoverflow.com/
• https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/
• https://www.reddit.com/
• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/
• https://answers.microsoft.com/

Modifying

• To add another site to the list, you'll need to add it to the end of the script after the last search engine, but before the closing brackets }})();
• The search has to meet the same criteria as custom Chrome/Edge browser search engines, except %s is replaced by query.
• For instance, this is the Google search: window.open('https://www.google.com/search?q=' + query);
• If you find another great search engine you want to use, add it in this format but replace the search URL with your sites search URL.
• A good way to discover the search URL is to search something on this site, grab the URL, and find your query.
• Example:
  • If I want to add DuckDuckGo, I'd go to DuckDuckGo.com
  • Search an example text, such as "PICNIC error"
  • Copy the URL https://duckduckgo.com/?q=PICNIC+error
  • Add it to the list, but replacing the search query. The final result is: window.open('https://duckduckgo.com/?q=' + query);
• Warning: as is, it opens up like 12 tabs, if you wanna reduce this, modify the javascript in VSCode or some other text editor and remove the sites you don't wanna search starting with window.open(...) and ending with the semicolon ;

Comments

Please ping me any good recommendations to add to the super search. Thanks!