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pinkster

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Does anyone know how to link a word to google and have google look it up? Like I have a list of moves and I'd like people to click on a link that will take them to a description of the movie (without me making a new page or linking it to a search I already did.)

Is it possible? :D Let me know!! Many thanks!! :P
 
Could you be more specific? If you want to link to something you already searched, you can simply do a search... and copy-n-paste the URL of the results.
 
Here's a link I created that takes you to the search results for "Chronicles of Riddick":

GOOGLE!
 
VamPyroX said:
Here's a link I created that takes you to the search results for "Chronicles of Riddick":

GOOGLE!
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That's the suggestion I was gonna suggest, but Vampy already beat me to it! Pffth!

Cheers!
 
VamPyroX said:
Could you be more specific? If you want to link to something you already searched, you can simply do a search... and copy-n-paste the URL of the results.
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I thought I was pretty specific. I want to be told HOW to do it. I dont want it done for me. Im perfectly capable of learning new things :)

I said I did not want to so a search myself, and use the url I find because it is a waste of my time.

I'd like to know how you did that for whatever movie you chose... thats exactly what I want to do.
 
You would probably have to include a referring search engine. I don't exactly know how to do that.
 
VamPyroX said:
You would probably have to include a referring search engine. I don't exactly know how to do that.
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Well I figured it out. Thanks anyways.
 
So, what was the results of your findings? Perhaps, we can use some of your expertise? :type:
 
VamPyroX said:
So, what was the results of your findings? Perhaps, we can use some of your expertise? :type:
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All I did was go to google and do a search, then I took the url and took out the search words and put new ones in.

So http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=about+a+boy became http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=along+came+polly without actuallu going to google. I double checked all my links to make sure they all go where I want them to go. But its still not really what I want. I mean it kind of is. But I know it would be better if i linked it to a movie site, which I was doing at first. But that site didnt have a few movies i wanted, plus I'd have to search for them and THEN post the link, instead of modifying a link. meh.
 
pinkster said:
All I did was go to google and do a search, then I took the url and took out the search words and put new ones in.

So http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=about+a+boy became http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=along+came+polly without actuallu going to google. I double checked all my links to make sure they all go where I want them to go. But its still not really what I want. I mean it kind of is. But I know it would be better if i linked it to a movie site, which I was doing at first. But that site didnt have a few movies i wanted, plus I'd have to search for them and THEN post the link, instead of modifying a link. meh.
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Actually, it could become a problem. If you include quotes, it searches for that exact phrase. That will help when you're doing movie titles. For instance, if the title was "About A Boy" and you did it without quotes. A website with the sentence, "This is A story ABOUT three women who attempted to help this little BOY with school." will qualify because without quotes... it searches in any order. Secondly, that trick you did helps for keywords without special characters such as " , ? ! & % #... etc. When you include special characters, Google will add special text instead. That's why I was showing you that. Yes, it may be a pain in the butt having to do a bit more work, but that's what we sometimes gotta do to get exactly what we want or to get better results.

I did a search for "about a boy" with and without quotes. Without quotes, I got 3 out of 10 results relating to that movie. With quotes, I got 9 movie and 1 book results relating to that movie. Since the movie is 2 years old, a lot of sites become outdated and the results don't exactly show up the way you want it.

I did a search for "along came polly" with and without quotes. Without and with quotes, I got 10 out of 10 results relating to that movie. This is because the movie is recent and everyone is talking about it. A few months later, results will drop out or be outdated... meaning, if you don't use quotes... you'll get less results than with quotes.

Of course, that's up to you. This method I did is what I would use cuz I'm sometimes picky when it comes to information.
 
VamPyroX said:
Actually, it could become a problem. If you include quotes, it searches for that exact phrase. That will help when you're doing movie titles. For instance, if the title was "About A Boy" and you did it without quotes. A website with the sentence, "This is A story ABOUT three women who attempted to help this little BOY with school." will qualify because without quotes... it searches in any order. Secondly, that trick you did helps for keywords without special characters such as " , ? ! & % #... etc. When you include special characters, Google will add special text instead. That's why I was showing you that. Yes, it may be a pain in the butt having to do a bit more work, but that's what we sometimes gotta do to get exactly what we want or to get better results.

I did a search for "about a boy" with and without quotes. Without quotes, I got 3 out of 10 results relating to that movie. With quotes, I got 9 movie and 1 book results relating to that movie. Since the movie is 2 years old, a lot of sites become outdated and the results don't exactly show up the way you want it.

I did a search for "along came polly" with and without quotes. Without and with quotes, I got 10 out of 10 results relating to that movie. This is because the movie is recent and everyone is talking about it. A few months later, results will drop out or be outdated... meaning, if you don't use quotes... you'll get less results than with quotes.

Of course, that's up to you. This method I did is what I would use cuz I'm sometimes picky when it comes to information.
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Ok well my html for it requires a " at the end of the code, and i cant have it say about+a+boy""> at the end.
 
pinkster said:
Ok well my html for it requires a " at the end of the code, and i cant have it say about+a+boy""> at the end.
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try changing the html code's " to a ' .. It should work. :D
 
Deaf258 said:
try changing the html code's " to a ' .. It should work. :D
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I tried and it didnt work. I ended up using imdb.com and searched myself. *shrugs* Thanks anyways.
 
Deaf258 said:
try changing the html code's " to a ' .. It should work. :D
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Yes, that's partially true. However, adding quotes in the URL box doesn't always work. You need special coding in the URL box instead of using quotes.
 
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