New Script To Number Bing Search Results
June 3rd, 2009 by Stephen Cronin (Please wait) [Shortlink]Earlier today, I released my first Greasemonkey script, Bing Numbered Search Results. As the name suggests, it numbers the SERP entries delivered by Microsoft’s new Bing search engine.
I’m not overly impressed by Bing, but along with many other people, I’ve been trying it out – and checking where my sites rank for the keywords I target.
One of the things I really missed was the Numbered Google Results Greasemonkey script that adds numbering to the Google SERPs. When you’re checking your rankings you want the ability to see which number your site is at in an instant. You don’t want to have to be counting things up manually!
I did a quick search for a similar script for Bing, but as yet none existed. So I wrote my own.
It didn’t take me long to write it, because I embedded both jQuery and the getUrlParam jQuery plugin by Mathias Bank. This made it simple to create Bing Numbered Search Results. In the end, it took only 10 lines of code!
The beauty of open source – instead of spending hours working out how to do this in plain old JavaScript, I could build on top of the works of others. Thanks to John Resig and his team and to Mathias Bank.
You can find out about it at the Bing Numbered Search Results home page or you can skip straight to Userscripts.org if you want to download it. You obviously need Greasemonkey to be able to use it.
Tags: bing, greasemonkey, SERPs, tools
