Netscape Search Buttons

This is a collection of buttons that you can drag onto your personal toolbar in Netscape. Each of them performs a lookup in some online resource, and can be activated in one of two ways:

By clicking on the button in your personal toolbar, you will get a pop-up box asking you for a word or phrase to look up.
If you select some text with the mouse and then click on the button the highlighted word or phrase will be looked up.

I got this idea (and the templates) from the Google and Merriam-Webster web sites.

To use one of these search buttons, click and drag one of the links below to the personal toolbar in your Netscape browser.

Dictionary: Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia Britannica.
Google: Search the Google web index. (from the Google web page)
Google (Mac), Google (BSD Unix), Google (linux): Topic-restricted Google searches.
Froogle (shopping), Google Images, Google Catalogs, Google Groups (Usenet): Specialized Google searches.
GoogleScout: Find pages in Google that are similar to the current page. (from the Google web page)
Amazon.com, Amazon (Books), Amazon (Music), Amazon (DVD): Search Amazon.com - general and specific searches.
RFC: IETF Request For Comments.

If you have any other search-like services that you'd like this functionality for, you can probably clone one of these links, or ask me and I'll make one and add it here.

Finally, if you are a MacOS X user, you may find this SearchGoogle service useful. After you've installed it, the "Services" submenu will have a "Search Google" service that will open your web browser to a Google search page, searching for whatever text you currently have selected.