var searchText = $('yourElement').text(),

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    // urls will be an array of URL matches

    urls = searchText.match(/\b(http|https)?(:\/\/)?(\S*)\.(\w{2,4})\b/ig);

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// you can then iterate through urls

for (var i = 0, il = urls.length; i < il; i++) {

    // do whatever with urls[i]

}

var citySearch = $.cookie('recentSearch');

citySearch.match(/_keywords=(.+)/)[1] 

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var citySearch = $.cookie('recentSearch');

citySearch.match(/_keywords=(.+?)&/)[1]

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