5 MORE HANDY SEARCHES - UPDATED 5-24-05

Fresh from the sidebar of Ferdy of Conservative Cat come these handy search boxes that you might like to include in your own sidebar, as I've done here at Bad Example.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
Technorati Cosmos
Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB)
TV Tome

I tested the code at a couple of my experimental Blogger sites & it seems to work fine. If you copy it whole from what I list in the extended entry and paste it somewhere in your sidebar, it should do the trick.

<h2>HANDY SEARCHES</h2>
<p><table border="0" width="200">
<tr><td align="center">
<img src="http://www.m-w.com/tools/search/images/dict1.gif" width="146" height="28" /><BR />
<form action="http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary" method="post" target="_blank">
<input type="hidden" name="book" value="Dictionary" />
<input type="text" name="va" size="25" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
<br />
<img src="http://www.m-w.com/tools/search/images/thes1.gif" width="142" height="28"><BR />
<form action="http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/thesaurus" method="post" target="_blank">
<input type="hidden" name="book" value="Thesaurus" />
<input name="va" size="25" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
</td></tr>
</table></p>

<!-- Technorati -->
<p><TABLE border="0" width="200">
<tr><td align="center"><hr />
<h2><a href="http://www.technorati.com">TECHNORATI</a> COSMOS</h2>
<p><form id="searchform" method="post" action="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html" target="_blank">
Enter keywords or a URL to search the Technorati blog database.<br />
<input type="hidden" name="rank" value="" />
<input id="st" type="text" name="url" size="25" maxlength="127" value="" /><br />
<input type="submit" class="submit" value="Search" title="Technorati: Search Results" />
</form></p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><hr />

<!-- IMDB -->
<h2><a href="http://www.imdb.com">IMDB</a> Search</h2>
<p><form action="http://www.imdb.com/Find" method=post target="_blank">
Enter a movie name, a TV show name, or a person's name
to search the Internet Movie Data Base<br />
<input type="hidden" name="select" value="All" />
<input type="text" name="for" size="25" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><hr />

<!-- TV TOME -->
<h2><a href="http://www.tvtome.com">TV TOME</a> Search</h2>
<p><form name="search_form" action="http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/Search" method="post" target="_blank">
Enter a TV show name or a person's name to search the TV Tome
episode database<br />
<input type=hidden name="searchType" value="all" />
<input type=text name="searchString" size="25" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Search" /></form></p>
</td></tr></table></p><hr />

<!-- End of Searches -->

UPDATE 5-24-05: [If you've found this post useful enough to blog about, send a trackback or e-mail the permalink to me at harvolson-at-gmail.com and I'll add you to my Bad Example Groupies blogroll. See this post for details]