The Random Blogger

I came across a great tool today that you can add to your website in minutes – and the best bit is, it’s 100% free!

It’s called the Mini Search Automator Widget, and you simply need to configure a few options, copy the code that’s generated for you, and then paste it into your website.

1. You can type in any search term you want.

2. You can search across a wide range of sources including Google Web, Yahoo Answers, Google Images, Yahoo Images/Flickr, Google Video/YouTube, Truveo Video, Google News, Digg, Wikipedia, Seeqpod (music), Last.fm, and Amazon.com - all of them are a click away!

3. You can earn money by referring people to SearchAutomator.com.

4. You can also earn money from Amazon.com too.

5. And you can search your own domain (although your site will already need to be indexed by Google).

You can pre-configure up to six recommended searches (e.g. terms that are related to your website), every feature of the widget has a tooltip to tell you all you need to know about using it, and it won’t slow your page down as it’s only 8KB in size.

You can use this widget just about anywhere too – on your site, your blog and even on forums.

So, grab up your free copy of the Mini Search Automator Widget now!

Technorati Tags: Search, Widget, SearchAutomator

Being a bit of a geek (or is that nerd?), I’ve installed no end of supposedly useful tools and applications on my various PCs over the years.

Most of them turn out to be nothing more than a novelty that gets tired very quickly, and so they get unceremoniously dumped soon afterwards.

But there is one free tool that I’ve had installed on my PC for a few years now, I use it every single day, and it really does save me loads of time, not to mention mouse-clicks!

It’s called (more…)