Searchamabob is a Javascript widget that allows your visitors to highlight text on your blog and then have an automatic context menu appear. This adds an extra level of usability to any blog. Anyone not familiar with context searching will be pleasantly surprised. Of course you will need to explain that you are employing this widget and you might want to tell your users exactly how to use it.
The Searchamabob widget comes from omgili.com. A search engine centered around buzz on the internet. They also allow you to create and embed Iframe “Buzz Graphs” on your blog or site. (screen image above)
This widget is completely hidden. You can’t tell it’s there until you actually highlight some text.
Then that little blue icon pops up and you can choose to search the highlighted word or phrase using Google or Omgili (the maker of the widget) You can also choose to display whats called a “Buzz Graph”. This graph displays the amount of discussion on the net (%) about the word or phrase that was highlighted.
Another cool feature of this widget. your users can add search engines to the context window. The default search to add is Yahoo! of course. I believe that you can add any search engine that you desire. What I don’t know is how the widget stores the search engines for future use.
Searchamabob widget
omgili.com
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