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Link for Google search for articles
Much like HN, a web link that searches the title in google to get around paywalls. Outline is great, but it does have a habit of dropping content.
Much like HN, a web link that searches the title in google to get around paywalls. Outline is great, but it does have a habit of dropping content.
In both Firefox and Chrome (and maybe other browsers), you can select text and right-click, and there's an option like
Search for "Text that you have selected..."near the top of the menu. So you can get the same effect as HN'sweblink by just triple-clicking the title to select it, right-clicking, and using that. A little less convenient, but also not a function that's needed very often.I much appreciate your general ethos of, I wouldn't say refuting, but suggesting simple alternatives to "optimal functionality", because 99 times out of 100, what we have is actually good enough and serves the job well. If this culture successfully permeates the rest of Tildes, I think Tildes will benefit greatly.
Can you clarify your post a bit? Is this something you're asking for?
On HN, if you go to the comments page on a particular link (the current #1 post as an example), there's a "web" button near the top (after flag/hide/etc.) that links to a google search for the title. So in that link's case, it goes to https://www.google.com/search?q=Remote%20Code%20Execution%20on%20a%20Facebook%20server
It can be useful sometimes for the paywalls that allow access via Google, since you can click that and it will hopefully bring up the article at the top of the results.
Okay, gotcha. I wasn't sure if this was something that @tomf was sharing, asking for, or meant to reply to someone with.