Google Caffeine Bookmarklet
Posted to: Bookmarklets,Google,Search,Tools,Webmaster
If you are a Google junkie like I am, you’ve likely been playing with their new test engine codenamed Caffeine that they announced yesterday.
When comparing searches at Caffeine to the normal Google copy and pasting terms around gets old quick so I made another bookmarklet:
Bookmarklet: Google Caffeine
It works very similar to my popular Google Insights and Google Trends bookmarklets — you simply search at Google like normal, then click the Google Caffeine bookmarklet in your browser to automatically run the same search at the Caffeine site.
The only thing it doesn’t do that would be nice is open a new window or tab, but I don’t know the code 
If you do, please let me know in the comments and I’ll update the bookmarklet.
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No idea, myself, but there’s some examples of bookmarklet code to open in a new tab/window here: http://decenturl.com/tools and here: http://henrik.nyh.se/2006/09/delicious-bookmarklet-that-opens-in-new-tab-or-window
http://www.web-source.net/html_new_window.htm
This may help
I tried this bookmarklet in 6 browsers and it worked in none of them. I re-installed Win Vista Home Premium last night so I know that isn’t the problem.
sorry Dwight, but I’m not sure what the problem could be. I’ve tested it in Firefox and IE and it works for me, others have thanked my for it too so I’m assuming it works for them as well.
have you tried any of my other bookmarklets?
http://www.googletutor.com/category/bookmarklets/
Dwight,
Are you sure it isn’t working? When it is, there isn’t any visual difference between Caffeine and the normal Google. The only noticable difference is that after clicking my bookmarklet the address in your browser should change to:
http://www2.sandbox.google.com/
Donna, thanks for the samples, those may help.
James, thanks as well, but html won’t work in this case.
This will open it in a new window (tab):
javascript:(function(){Q=[]; c=location.search.slice(1).split(‘&’); for (i in c) { f=c[i].split(‘=’); if (f[0]==’q’ || f[0]==’as_q’ || f[0]==’p’ || f[0]==’query’) if (f[1]) Q.push(f[1]) } R=unescape(Q.join(‘; ‘).replace(/\+/g,’ ‘)); window.open(‘http://www2.sandbox.google.com/#h&q=’+R)})();
I just tried it again and it still isn’t working. I use lots of bookmarklets but this one dosen’t work for me.
Same for me as with Dwight. I am running firefox on a mac, maybe that’s the issue? It doesn’t always behave as it does on a pc… Bummer, would be a nice tool!