MyLastSearch v1.56 - View your latest search engine queries.
Description
MyLastSearch utility scans the cache and history files of your Web browser, and locate all search queries that you made with the most popular search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) and with popular social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace). The search queries that you made are displayed in a table with the following columns: Search Text, Search Engine, Search Time, Search Type (General, Video, Images), Web Browser, and the search URL.You can select one or more search queries and then copy them to the clipboard or save them into text/html/xml file.
Versions History
- MyLastSearch Version 1.56:
- Fixed MyLastSearch to detect the correct cache folder of Firefox if the user changed it from Firefox config (browser.cache.disk.parent_directory).
- MyLastSearch Version 1.55:
- The search queries are now displayed while scanning the history/cache files of your Web browsers.
- Added 'Stop' menu item displayed while scanning the Web browser data, which allows you to stop the scanning process.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.50:
- Added 'Mark Odd/Even Rows' option, under the View menu. When it's turned on, the odd and even rows are displayed in different color, to make it easier to read a single line.
- On Windows Vista/7/2008: The cache of Internet Explorer is now loaded from both the base cache folder and the 'Low' subfolder. (In the previous versions, only one of them was loaded, according to the last modified date/time of the index.dat file)
- MyLastSearch Version 1.49:
- Fixed to work properly with the history file of Firefox 4 Beta.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.48:
- Fixed to work properly with the cache of Firefox 4 Beta.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.47:
- Fixed MyLastSearch to read the cache files of Chrome Web browser when it's opened and locks the files.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.46:
- Added 'Exclude the queries made by Google Instant' option. This option is turned on by default. The new 'Google Instant' feature generates a search query for every letter that the user type in the search box, and fills the search queries displayed by MyLastSearch with junk queries of incomplete words. This option removes all these junk queries.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.45:
- You can now send the search engine queries list to stdout by specifying an empty filename ("") in the command-line of all save parameters.
For example: MyLastSearch.exe /stab "" >> c:\temp\queries.txt - Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.
- You can now send the search engine queries list to stdout by specifying an empty filename ("") in the command-line of all save parameters.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.44:
- Fixed a problem with crash/exception when reading the cache of Chrome Web browser.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.43:
- Fixed MyLastSearch to work with Opera 10.50
- MyLastSearch Version 1.42:
- Added support for sorting the saved search queries list from command-line - /sort
- Fixed MyLastSearch to automatically detect the cache folder of Opera 10.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.41:
- Added support for search queries of Microsoft Bing.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.40:
- Added support for search queries of Wikipedia, Friendster, hi5, Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.36:
- Added support for Chrome 2.x
- MyLastSearch Version 1.35:
- Added filter by Web browser (in Advanced Options)
- MyLastSearch Version 1.32:
- Fixed bug: in some cases, MyLastSearch crashed when loading the cache of Firefox Web browser.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.31:
- Improved the support for Firefox 3 history file.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.30:
- Added support for the cache of Chrome Web browser.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.25:
- Added support for the cache of Opera Web browser.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.21:
- Fixed bug: MyLastSearch failed to work with history file of Firefox 3.0.1
- MyLastSearch Version 1.20:
- Added support for history files of Firefox 3.
- Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to MyLastSearch.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.14:
- The URLs in HTML report are now created as links.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.13:
- Added support for YouTube search queries.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.12:
- Added support for saving into comma-delimited (.csv) file.
- Added /scomma command-line option.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.11:
- Added support for AOL.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.10:
- Added Ask.com and Alexa search engines
- Added support for images, news, video, and group searches.
- Added 'Search Type' column.
- Added /loadfrom command-line option
- MyLastSearch Version 1.01 - Fixed support for reading the cache of Internet Explorer under Vista with UAC turned on.
- MyLastSearch Version 1.00 - First release.
Using MyLastSearch
MyLastSearch utility doesn't require any installation process or additional DLL files. In order to start using it, simply copy the executable file (MyLastSearch.exe) to any folder you like, and run it.After running it, MyLastSearch scans the cache and history files of your Web browsers (Internet Explorer and/or Firefox), and find all search queries stored in them. The scanning process may take from a few seconds to 1 minute, depending on the size of your cache and history files.
After the scanning process is finished, the main window should display the list of all search queries the you made with the most popular search engines.
Translating MyLastSearch to other languages
In order to translate MyLastSearch to other language, follow the instructions below:- Run MyLastSearch with /savelangfile parameter:
MyLastSearch.exe /savelangfile
A file named MyLastSearch_lng.ini will be created in the folder of MyLastSearch utility. - Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.
- Translate all string entries to the desired language. Optionally, you can also add your name and/or a link to your Web site. (TranslatorName and TranslatorURL values) If you add this information, it'll be used in the 'About' window.
- After you finish the translation, Run MyLastSearch, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
If you want to run MyLastSearch without the translation, simply rename the language file, or move it to another folder.
License
This utility is released as freeware. You are allowed to freely distribute this utility via floppy disk, CD-ROM, Internet, or in any other way, as long as you don't charge anything for this. If you distribute this utility, you must include all files in the distribution package, without any modification !Disclaimer
The software is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The author will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential or indirect damages due to loss of data or any other reason.Feedback
If you have any problem, suggestion, comment, or you found a bug in my utility, you can send a message to nirsofer@yahoo.com
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