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From: Andrew <andrew@spam.net>
Newsgroups: news.admin.peering
Subject: Re: Request Nova BBS add easier-to-remember search URL links for Usenet article lookups
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:27:29 -0000 (UTC)
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Grant Taylor wrote on Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:13:23 -0500 :

> On 3/20/24 02:33, Andrew wrote:
>> No big deal but I do not understand Grant's suggestion above.
>> What's a "search shortcut" and which "client" is Grant talking about?
> 
> Custom search engines (or some nomenclature like that) used to be what 
> they were called in Firefox.

Thanks for explaining.

That's what I thought you might have been referring to, where in the olden
days of early web browsing, we had "dict word" to bring up a dictionary to
that word. 

The problem is, of course, that every person on the planet has to do that,
whereas RetroGuy could just create a URL that mimics the Google URL....

1. This still works, so why not piggyback off of the syntax:
   <https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> (no longer updated)
2. To piggyback off that syntax, RetroGuy can possible make the URL:
   <https://groups.novabbs.com/g/news.admin.peering> (updated after Google)

I like it because of the intuitive simplicity and URL continuity.
 
> Now they seem to be bookmarks with keywords.
> 
> I have the following bookmark in Firefox:
> 
>     Name:  USPS Tracking
>      URL:  https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=%s
> Keyword:  usps
> 
> So any time I type "usps " (trailing space is important) in the address 
> bar it changes and indicates that it's doing a search and then replaces 
> the "%s" in the URL (from the bookmark) with whatever I type after the 
> URL in the address bar.
> 
> So  you could have something like:
> 
>     Name:  NovaBBS
>      URL:  https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?group=%s
> Keyword:  nova
> 
> So that any time you type "nova news.admin.peering" the web browser goes 
> to the following URL:
> 
>  
> https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?group=news.admin.peering


Thanks. Much appreciated. I think a better solution is something like this:
   <https://groups.novabbs.com/g/news.admin.peering>

Which is easy to remember, especially as it's similar to the previous
Google Usenet search URL with only a minor change of the domain name.

That's my vote! :)