ResearchBuzz posted a note Sweet Google Results Scraper in a Bitty Bookmarklet — ResearchBuzz, June 24, 2004 about a Google search scraper bookmarklet hack written by David Crossman and posted on the O’Reilly Hacks site. Why would you use it? It creates a comma-delimited text file that can be loaded into any application that reads such files. Once you have it in an application, such as Microsoft Excel, it is data that you can sort or manipulate in some way that makes sense to you.

O’Reilly Books
O’Reilly is my favorite technical book site because of the breadth of free technical articles, book excerpts, and user feedback. They publish a lot of “hacks” books. See O’Reilly Hacks Series.

Who is ResearchBuzz?
ResearchBuzz explains their site, “this site provides almost daily updates on search engines, new data managing software, browser technology, large compendiums of information, Web directories — whatever.” It is written and edited by Tara Calishain. She is the lead author in the book Google Hacks.

What are bookmarklets?
Wikipedia has a page that explains a bookmarklet . If you want to create your own, check out the article Bookmarklets - www.docjavascript.com on Webreference. Bookmarklets have a wider use in the library realm, such as those created by Indiana State University, which are available at Library Bookmarklets. SearchEngine Watch has additional links and an article about bookmarklets: Library Lookup: A Simple but Powerful Search Tool.