The latest in feature creep countermeasures

[tgies]

Google has a horrible new thing called "SearchWiki" which adds a bunch of stupid buttons to every results page if you are logged into Google:

I hate it.

Here is a user script I wrote so that Firefox users with Greasemonkey can be rid of it. It should also work in Opera without anything extra installed, but I am not clear on the specifics of that (Google it instead of bugging me about it).

searchwikigotohell.user.js

The only issue I am aware of is that you will still have a little trailing hyphen at the end of every result because I couldn't be bothered figuring out how to get rid of it (it would involve running some kind of stupid regex replace on every results page — if someone wants to try, I expect you could match on "pages - " and replace with "pages").

That is all.

Comments

[tehslugbug.livejournal.com]

God damn it and here I was really hoping [[Dad car]] was a real article

[tgies.livejournal.com]

{{sofixit}}

[jhskulk.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was very disappointed

[999kcelfe.livejournal.com]

this

[vxo.livejournal.com]

Dad cars have fake wood. Lots of fake wood.

[jhskulk.livejournal.com]

Alternate solution: Use google.ca instead. It's basically the same as google.com, and doesn't have these stupid buttons.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

yes it does



you are probably just not logged in or something

[jhskulk.livejournal.com]

weird

I just went to Google.com logged in and it wasn't there? but then it was. Why doesn't Google make up its mind

[tgies.livejournal.com]

it does disappear sometimes, i think they are still getting it sorted out

[flamingspinach.livejournal.com]

Maybe you knew this but there's a script someone made which hides/unhides it instead of just removing it from the DOM. Don't know if that has any disadvantage or advantage compared to your script. But it still leaves the "-" as well.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

oh thanks

i don't think that's a good approach, though. let's add more shit to the document and set a ton of pref bits and stuff to get rid of a few things.

[flamingspinach.livejournal.com]

OK, then there's also this one, which also just hides it, but is apparently compatible with Opera (presumably because it doesn't use XPath).

[tgies.livejournal.com]

oh opera doesn't have xpath

wooooooooooow

[flamingspinach.livejournal.com]

Oh apparently they added support in Opera 9 with some caveats.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

xpath 1.0 is completely different from what people mean when they say "xpath" though

[craphazzard.livejournal.com]

I just started with javascript and wrote a really uninspiring userscript for forcing youtube to be highquality.

and yeah little button things can goto hell.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

i wrote the same one :hi5:

[craphazzard.livejournal.com]

:3c

[anti-esque.livejournal.com]

hahaha DAD CAR

sounds like something directly out of Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job

they have an ongoing joke about dads and dad-items

[tgies.livejournal.com]

I do not like to look at them. Personal preference. They break up a layout I am very accustomed to, are of no use to me, and add a whole bunch of JavaScript event listeners and crap I'd rather be rid of.