[PLUG-TALK] mySearches google gadget
Michael M. Moore
michael at writemoore.net
Tue Oct 28 18:40:14 UTC 2008
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
>
> For those of you that set your home page to iGoogle and have added
> a few gadgets, I suggest you look at the mySearches gadget from
> madmaxmatze.de . One search text window and a selectable icon bar
> that lets you search for that text with many different search engines.
> I have my icons set to Google Books, Google Linux, Youtube, Amazon,
> Ebay, Imdb, wikipedia, sourceforge, perldoc, and about a dozen others.
<snip>
If only it wasn't called "mySearches." Where computers are concerned,
I have a knee-jerk reaction against "My..." anything dating back to
Microsoft days. I think it was "My Network Places" that did me in.
--
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within
limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add
'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's
will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
--Thomas Jefferson
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