Suggestion #1: If you want to link to a particular user, you seem to have to use the [id://id-of-user] syntax. I often type in [user://username] -- I have always expected this to work, and have always been surprised when it doesn't.

Suggestion #2: Add a direct link to a site-restricted Google search of perlmonks.thepen.com to the top of the Super Search page. Or maybe a text entry field that appends the site restriction to the query and does the search immediately.

Suggestion #3: Similarly to Bookmarklet to view original of node, only add a link to every node that points to the original on thepen so that people won't need the clever bookmark.

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Re: User linking and thepen search
by greenFox (Vicar) on Jul 22, 2004 at 08:29 UTC

    re Suggestion #1 [username] works - greenFox.

    Agree re Suggestion #2, good idea.

    --
    Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -Basho

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      ?;node=pod;type=user lists only nodes of type user, while ?;node=pod lists all types of nodes, so I think #1 wouldn't be a bad idea.

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      Sadly, I never figured that out for myself. Ouch. Thank you.
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Re: User linking and thepen search
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 22, 2004 at 08:16 UTC

    ++ I would be grateful if #2 were put in. I've started doing it manually lately.

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Re: User linking and thepen search
by chazzz (Pilgrim) on Jul 22, 2004 at 10:38 UTC
    Suggestion #2 - Yes please!
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Re: User linking and thepen search
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 28, 2004 at 04:36 UTC

    Working patch for #2 (but maybe not ideal).

    html

    <form action="./google.cgi" method="get"
 enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
Search The Monastery pages via
 <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>&trade;
<input type="text" name="search_google"
 onmouseover="this.focus()" style="width:15em;" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>

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    cgi (as google.cgi above)

    use CGI;
use URI::Escape;
use Socket qw(:crlf);
my $q = CGI::param('search_google') . ' site:perlmonks.thepen.com';
$q = uri_escape( $q );
print "Location: http://www.google.com/search?q=$q", CRLF, CRLF;

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      There's already a working link on super search. There was a bug that prevented it from showing but that was fixed soon after this thread appeared. Because we just use google's form, the user can set other options as well.

      - tye        

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        Oh, excellent. Thanks!

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