The Fantasy Football Geek Blog

In case you aren’t a Firefox user yet, here’s a great reason to become one: The fantastic (and fantastically simple) add-on called Hyperwords. Hyperwords allows you to select any word, name, or phrase on any page on the Web and immediately plug it into an online resource of your choice. Select an address and send it to Google Maps. Select a phone number and send it to Skype. Select someone’s pompously cryptic French expression, translate it into English to find out what it means, then never tell anyone about it in case it’s one of those expressions that everyone seems to know but you.

There’s lots more you can do, but most important to fantasy football players is its central function: Sending your selected text to a search engine of your choice. So let’s say someone offers to trade you Ronnie Brown, and your first thought is, “What’s the deal with his knee, anyway?” Just select his name, right-click, select Google News, and there you go. Sure, you could have opened up a new window, gone to news.google.com, typed in Ronnie’s name, and thereby accomplished the same thing, but that would have cost you a whole extra five to ten seconds, which is of course simply unacceptable.