It may be useful to provide translators with a web-based archive of reference
documents that pertain to their translation. This would help them do highly
focused searches in online documentation etc.
Create a custom Google search engine
Google offers a service whereby anyone can create a specialised search engine
by limiting the pages and web sites that are indexed. The service has several
additional features but for our purposes the most basic features would suffice.
- http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
- You must have a Google account (free registration)
- You can change most aspects of it later, so don’t worry about putting in the
wrong information.
- You can specify just one or several pages/sites to index, and you can specify
them in interesting ways (eg only pages that contain the letters “about”).
You can also exclude pages by a pattern.
Unfortunately, the URL of the search engine is a bit difficult to remember, but
you can easily link to it from any page.
Here is a test search engine that will search only pages of this wiki, as well
as pages from the Wikipedia that contain the letters “transl” in their URL:
Adding a custom search in Opera
How to create a custom search in Opera 9.5
- Go to a page that contains the search box.
- Right-click the search box and select “Create search”.
- Type in a name and a shortcut for the search (e.g. “Art of Illusion” and
“aoi”).
- Done!
Methods to use:
- Select text, then right-click the selection and use .
- Double-click a word (it will be selected), then use .
- Open a new tab Ctrl+T, then type “aoi searchword” and Enter to
search for “searchword”.
Adding a custom search in Firefox
How to create a custom search in Firefox 2
- Go to a page that contains the search box.
- Right-click the search box and select “Add keyword for this search”.
- The caption will read “Add bookmark”, but don’t worry, you’re actually adding
a search.
- Type in a name and a shortcut for the search (e.g. “Art of Illusion” and
“aoi”).
- Done!
Methods to use:
- Open a new tab Ctrl+T, then type “aoi searchword” and Enter to
search for “searchword”.