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LJ Username and Interest Search - Just Like Mom Used to Make!

Dec 19, 2009 17:10

Sick of the new search engine? Firefox has your back.

Go hereClick on "Livejournal Interest" (for interests) and "Livejournal User Info Search" (for usernames ( Read more... )

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flamingtoilet January 11 2010, 14:11:52 UTC

Awesome! Definitely have to try this when I get home!

elfwreck January 11 2010, 14:26:07 UTC

Ooh, wonderful!

I hadn't seen the announcement about the new search; hadn't tried it until I saw this. Yuck. It uses word stemming and there's no way to turn it off.

I can't figure out why anyone would need to search for a username (I just put username.livejournal.com into the address bar & see if it's an active account), but searching by interests is *useful.* Thanks for posting this!

thewebmistress January 11 2010, 15:38:15 UTC

that's funny, I search for usernames all the time and always think "ugh why do they put "interests" first, who would need to search for that?!" :P

...which I'm sure lots of people would, but I've never found it useful.

pne January 11 2010, 15:49:08 UTC

Same here. When they changed the default from "Site + User" to "Interest", I was a bit upset. Until someone showed me how to set up custom searches, which is basically what this is, though I did it manually.

relativity January 11 2010, 17:27:05 UTC

I was so used to using the Firefox plug-ins instead of LJ's search that I didn't know they had changed it, either, until the news post a month ago where people were complaining about it. So I replied to the post just to give people a heads-up, and someone suggested I post it here.

Now if only we could search on multiple interests at once ...

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relativity January 11 2010, 17:28:43 UTC

Unfortunately, I don't know anything about Opera. Sorry?

enigel January 11 2010, 18:46:24 UTC

Go to: http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml

Right-click in the Find text box.

Select "Create Search". Opera will make it into a search engine for you! :D (I love Opera. ;) )

The other search seems to have been exterminated from the new site schemes. (I knew why I wasn't switching from XColibur...) But if you go to my LJ you should be able to do the same trick from the Search box included in the layout.

turlough January 11 2010, 17:20:32 UTC

Thank you!!!

only_in_silence January 11 2010, 19:12:12 UTC

This is fantastic, thank you!