7 thoughts on “How to search multiple websites fast (for Word research)”

1. Riccardo April 27, 2013 at 12:06 am

   Hi Gabriel,
   I follow your blog since the post on Lifehacker and learned a lot about learning a language. This site is truly a great resource.

   While moving to another city I somehow stopped my Spanish studies and eventually lost track completely. I guess I never really got into using Anki regularly, in part because researching words was laborious.

   But this post was the kick I needed to get going again. It makes it so much easier to get information for Anki. Thanks!

   Since I did not want to fiddle with iMacros I created an Alfred workflow for the same purpose. It can be triggered by hotkey or keyword and opens the links from your Pastebin in separate tabs of the default browser. I shared the workflow with the Alfred Community here. Maybe some of your readers find it useful, too.

   You use a Mac, too, right? If you do not use Alfred, you should check it out

   Riccardo

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2. veejay April 27, 2013 at 1:27 pm

   Hi Gabe, thanks to your January post I’ve been using iMacros to speed up my Anki input to great effect. Every now and again I use the English Google Image search to find more appropriate images than appear when I search using the French page, but in the last fortnight I’ve been unable to find the ‘Switch to Basic Version’ link on the English Google Images page. Do you have any ideas?

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   1. Gabriel Wyner Post authorApril 27, 2013 at 8:20 pm

      Weird! Just use this link, I guess!

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      1. veejay April 27, 2013 at 8:59 pm

         Thanks Gabe. I’ve just worked out it out - for some bizarre reason the UK Google Images page no longer has the option for the basic version, but the .com page does.

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3. FabT April 30, 2013 at 11:29 pm

   Hello

   here is my macro : it opens only four tabs, and has the third one opened translating arabic to french.
   I’ve made it so that the first tab on wich you’re reading your arabic text stays open.
   You don’t have to open four tabs first, everything is done in one click
   Thank you Gabriel for the ideas and the tutorial !

   Fabrice

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   VERSION BUILD=8300326 RECORDER=FX
   PROMPT “Please enter a word:” !VAR2
   SET !TIMEOUT_PAGE 1
   SET !ERRORIGNORE YES
   SET !VAR1 1
   ‘Start at TAB T=2, as we do not want to change “start” tab of user
   ‘Open TAB, select it, load website
   TAB OPEN NEW
   ADD !VAR1 1
   TAB T={{!VAR1}}
   URL GOTO=http://www.almaany.com/home.php?language=arabic&word={{!VAR2}}&cat_group=1&lang_name=%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A&type_word=2&dspl=0
   ‘Open TAB, select it, load website
   TAB OPEN NEW
   ADD !VAR1 1
   TAB T={{!VAR1}}
   URL GOTO=http://www.almaany.com/thesaurus.php?language=arabic&word={{!VAR2}}&type_word=0
   ‘Open TAB, select it, load website
   TAB OPEN NEW
   ADD !VAR1 1
   TAB T={{!VAR1}}
   URL GOTO=http://www.almaany.com/home.php?language=arabic&word={{!VAR2}}&lang_name=Fran%C3%A7aise&type_word=2&dspl=0
   ‘Open TAB, select it, load website
   TAB OPEN NEW
   ADD !VAR1 1
   TAB T={{!VAR1}}
   URL GOTO=http://www.google.com/search?q={{!VAR2}}&hl=en&safe=off&authuser=0&site=imghp&tbm=isch&sout=1&biw=1071&bih=611
   TAB T=2

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4. Isobel August 18, 2013 at 11:34 am

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   you have a great readers’ base already!

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5. Declan September 17, 2013 at 4:35 am

   Brilliant Gabe, thanks so much. This really makes the difference for me between sticking to 200+ words a week and giving up!

   Just a quick question, is there a way to speed up adding the audio from forvo? For example, is there a way to copy and paste straight into Anki like we can do in google images? For me, this is the longest part of the process at the moment.

   Kind regards,

   Dec

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