Updated: 4/23/2002; 2:12:17 PM.

Dave's Handsome Radio Blog!

I had a few minutes to play with a new idea

The Google Outline Browser -- or G.O.B. for short.

Here's how it works. You choose a command from the googleOutlineBrowser tool menu, and enter a URL.

It creates a new node in the frontmost outline, of type "googleNode". You can see one of those at the top level of this section.

When you expand it, here's what it does:

1. It calls google.search to get a list of the top ten sites that are "related" to the site you started with.

2. For each result, it creates a subordinate googleNode for that site.

3. Expand one of those to visit all the sites that it is related to.

3a. Ad infinitum.

Another important feature.

A new command in the right-click menu that takes you to the site in a Web browser.

Interesting idea, eh? Anyone want to write the tool? (I haven't written it yet, and don't really have time.)

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