Greasemonkey Puts Yahoo on Google!
May 17th, 2005
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Google and Yahoo are back together again, but not by their own design. Premshree Pillai has written a script to insert a Yahoo tab on the Google home page with the use of dynamic HTML. That way, he can easily click to Yahoo search results (without retyping the query) when Google’s listings fall short. Clever, but it won’t bring smiles in the corporate camps of Yahoo and Google. [via CNET News]
How does he do it – Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (”user scripts”) to any web page to change its behavior. His post is drawing a lot of attention and comments from major tech sites.






