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    Posted on February 19th, 2009 2 comments

    I've patched my copy of the delicious firefox extension so that when you bookmark a page which you got to from a google/yahoo search, those search terms are automatically included as the first set of tags for the post. This only happens if the search is in your recent history (must be able to get back to the search page with no more than 2 back button clicks from the page you are bookmarking).

    I've posted that patch to the extension's yahoo group, so it will hopefully end up in the official extension (as a non-default option). In the meantime, here is the patch and the modified extension (original version 2.1.018). Note that I didn't change the name of modified extension so that it overwrites your old delicious plugin. However, this also means that this version will be overwritten by any new official versions released. I'll figure out a more clean solution if the patch doesn't get accepted.

    NOTE: This feature must now be enabled via preferences

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2 Responses to “Search terms as initial delicious bookmark tags”

  1. Benjamin Goldenberg February 19th, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    That’s really clever. I’ll have to check it out when I get a chance. Can you turn quoted strings into single tags? Something like “foo bar” into foo_bar? Is development of the delicious extension open? I assumed it was controlled by the delicious folks (now Yahoo).

  2. dwiel February 19th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    I like the idea of converting “foo bar” into foo_bar or maybe simply foobar. Pie in the sky: check to see if that user has already used foo_bar or foobar before and use that? I’ll have to see what I think when it comes up in use.

    Unfortunately the development of the delicious extension isn’t open. I’ve posted over at their yahoo groups with the patch though, so hopefully we can figure out a way to include it anyway …

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