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Is there a way or website to search for images with bigger thumbnails? [closed]
When I am looking for textures or references, the google image search thumbnails is too small. I am basically wondering it there is a way/extension that shows much bigger thumbnails (2-4x)> Or another ...
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How to search for words with the same suffix on Google? [migrated]
I thought it was possible by using the asterisk but that returns no result.
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change of default search-engine on Safari
So I got this problem - I installed Internet Explorer on my Mac and an add-on program came with it (XQuarz). And after this all the default search engine in Safari is got changed to ChatZilla (wtf?!) ...
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How to get rid of “mixi.dj search” engine in Chrome? [duplicate]
Every time I restart Google Chrome, the defalt search engine is set to "mixi.DJ search", even if I remove it from the list of search engines.
How to definitively get rid of it ?
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How to restore default Google search engine in Chrome?
I've accidentaly deleted the Google search engine in Chrome and I can't get it back.
Most sites have simple querystring search like http://mysite/search/?query=%s
- But google has some weird query ...
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how to remove the chatzum search engine from my browser
I'm using Google Chrome on a Windows 7 computer, and I've noticed that when searching for something by just typing in the address bar, it now returns a search results page from something called ...
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Any recent known problems concerning search engines optimization? [closed]
Am going to write a dissertation about SEO. Anything in particular which is problematic and deserves some research to solve? I'd be happy to do!!
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How to search within specific websites at once?
Is there any way to search through specific websites at the same time ??
I mean , if i want to search for a movie, song or whatever
Can I search for it, only through my Bookmarks Using any search ...
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remove AVG Secure Search
I am running a Dell laptop computer with a Windows 7 Professional operating system. I have Google Chrome and Internet Explorer installed. When I open Internet Explorer the home page I get is a ...
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Bing search page locks up (the front page, not results)
I'm encountering a strange problem. I've been using the Bing search engine for a while now, and have been happy with it. I still am. However, starting either last night or early today, when the ...
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how to install open source galago search tool?
Anyone know how to install galago search on windows 7 SP1?
So far I have tried to install galago search engine from galago.bat in the bin folder. The problem Iam guessing lies in the galago.bat ...
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how do i search for certain word in a website? [closed]
Is there any way to search within a website without manually checking out every link?
Suppose there is some website www.somewebsite.com and I want to search for a word in all of the pages ...
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Can't get Chrome search shortcut for IMDB to work anymore
Tried
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s&s=all
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%s
But when it loads the page, it loads http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all;q=%s (note ...
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How to calculate the time taken by htdig to do global indexing?
Htdig is a search engine, that may be used to implement global index based search. If there are multiple site_urls to be used in global index, is there a way to find the total time taken by htdig to ...
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How to get website automatically added into Chrome's my list of other search engines?
So I'm a developer and on Stack Overflow but don't know if this question exactly qualifies to be over there. Kind of depends on if the answer if one requires code so I'm asking here instead.
Today I ...
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Make Firefox go to first result when query typed in address bar?
I have just installed Firefox 17 on Windows 7.
When I search by writing a word in the address bar and pressing Enter I am not being redirected to the first result automatically.
How can I make ...
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Can you change the search engines order in Chrome?
Can you change the search engines order (more specifically, the ones in the default settings tab) in Google Chrome?
I think they are in the order they were added to the default search engines tab, ...
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Firefox adding my own URL as my search engine? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to add a custom search engine to Firefox?
How can I add my own URL (with a %s as the search item) as one of the search engines in Firefox? Right now, it only allows ...
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Userscript to add website screenshot for each google search result?
Before the "preview pane" for google web search results came out from their labs, there already were userscripts to have a visual snapshot for each and every website in a web search query result.
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Are there web search engines with exact match or regex capabilities (for related terms)? [closed]
Every once in a while I come upon a situation when google's way of searching results in too broad results even if I enclose my search terms in quotation marks.
For example now I've tried to find ...
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How to change default search engine in firefox running on ubuntu
I did similar threads on this issue, I modified browser.search.defaultenginename and browser.search.defaulturl to Google, it still comes back with Yahoo. I am stuck, not sure how to change the ...
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In Firefox how do you set the page a new tab opens to?
I used to open a new tab and in the URL bar type whatever I wanted to google search. I had some adware toolbar that screwed with some settings and now when I open a new tab there's a search page and ...
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Firefox: Add a custom Google search including pre-defined keywords
I'd like to figure out a way to have customized Google searches to choose from in the Firefox search bar in the top right corner. By customized I just mean the possibility to add specific pre-defined ...
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How to change IE 10 search engine in Windows RT
With the Microsoft Surface right around the corner, I've been trying to live in Metro apps to see if I could live without the desktop in Windows 8. One thing I've noticed is that I can't change the ...
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Generating proper search results [closed]
I want to create a basic search engine, and I want you to give me some ideas how to filter out the best results for my visitors.
I have three fields regarding a product the user can search in:
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Enable Instant in Chrome browser using custom search engine
I used this hack to ignore my country location by google chrome default search engine. So far, it has worked at least in Chromium browser, but with the version 20.0.1132.47, it does not work anymore.
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How to find all domains containing specific string
I want to know which different pedia's exist.
I want a list of all registered domains, which end with pedia.org, pedia.com or pedia.info, (e.g WIKIpedia.org or Anotherpedia.info).
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Getting web results URLs in millions [closed]
I looked at all sites of SO and couldn't find any suitable to ask this question but posting here as nearest match to scenario
After 1 months research I basically give up on getting all URL's from a ...
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Why does Google Chrome ignore “last_known_google_url” property in “Local State” file?
I want to force my Google Chrome web browser (version 21.0.1180.89, 64-bit) to use non-localized search (thus Google in English) through address bar, using the default Google search engine.
To ...
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How can I disable the custom search engines in Google Chrome [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Google Chrome automatically adding websites to my list of search engines?
There is a feature in Google Chrome that installs a custom search engine if there is a:
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Chrome addon for Firefox search bar?
So in Firefox there's an address bar and a search bar right next to it. I happen to have 12-15 different search engines (for various sites) on the search bar.
It's become a habit of mine to click on ...
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Search multiple search engines with a single keyword at the same time in Chrome?
I want to search multiple websites at once by using a keyword trigger in Google Chrome. I am trying to achieve this with Javascript as described in this topic over at mozillazine.
This is the code ...
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Is there a way to search the web and my own hard drive at the same time?
I have lots of PDFs and other documents on my hard drive, many of which aren't online anywhere.
If I know something is online, I can use Google.
If I know something is on my drive, I can use ...
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How to modify the language used by the Google Search Engine on IE 9.0?
I would like to know how we can modify the settings of the Google Search Engine used in Internet Explorer 9.0 to force to use a specific language. Our problem is the following: as it uses geolocation ...
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Firefox : 2 different URLs for bookmarks : keyword (for as search engine) and base
With a bookmark of IMDb http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s and a keyword imdb, I can type imdb seven then enter, and it will send me at http://www.imdb.com/find?q=seven.
With the same bookmark or another ...
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Can't do Google UK searches with Firefox Search Box when HTTPS Everywhere is active
When HTTPS Everywhere 2.0.2 extension is active, searches in the built-in Firefox Search Box go to https://encrypted.google.com (instead of https://www.google.co.uk as desired). This means that I ...
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Does using DuckDuckGo on Chrome or Chromium browsers eliminate the privacy advantage? [closed]
The search engine DuckDuckGo purports to be much more private than other search engines such as Google. However, I use the Google Chromium browser which, I believe is collecting data on my web usage. ...
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how to make a browser/search engine ignore detecting current location
A lot of people are annoyed (including me) when a browser/search engine detects the regional settings. If I am in Romania, it redirect the search engine to google.ro and sets the language to RO. I ...
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How do I add additional parameters to query string of a Firefox Search Plugin?
I have just installed the DuckDuckGo add-on in Firefox 11.0, running on XP SP 3.
I would like to add additional parameters to the query string. However, any changes I make are not reflected in the ...
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Where can a find a video search site with an HD filter? [closed]
Is there any site that I can use to search YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, etc. for HD videos in 720p and up?
Some time ago I recall being able to do this with Google Video Search but that feature is ...
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Refining searches step by step
Say I am searching for job openings, most results would be uninteresting, for example I might get peoples CVs instead of job openings, or I might want to exclude posts from people who post a lot ...
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can't add a new search engine in chrome
After I enter a new search engine and its URL, how can I actually add it? There is no button to push, actually there are no control elements whatsoever.
I will appreciate your help in this matter.
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Replace Google with Bing in Firefox [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the search engine used by about:home?
I do not accept Google’s new privacy policy, so I have switched to Bing. Is there a way to replace the google on ...
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Desktop/server search engine with night time indexing
Is there some desktop/server search engine (such as Google Desktop or Copernic) satisfying the below requests.
Requests:
Must work on Windows server and Windows 7 environments.
Indexing can be ...
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Full-Text Search Through My Bookmarks?
I would like to be able to search through pages which I have bookmarked. Like a Google search but limited to my bookmarks.
Firefox allows you to search through your bookmarks but only the URL, Title ...
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How to save/export Firefox search engines
I got many different search engines added to my search toolbar in Firefox (version 8). As I'm facing a soon re-install of my O/S, I need want to backup these search engines - preferably also the ...
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How to add Google as search engine in Internet Explorer 8
I don't have Google listed among available search engines.
Search for "Google" in the IE Gallery finds nothing.
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Google Chrome custom search engine for secure Wikipedia through Google search
I have this custom search engine set up in Google Chrome:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aen.wikipedia.org+%s&btnI=1
It searches Google for site:en.wikipedia.org {query}, and the btnI=1 ...
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How can I make Firefox use local Google for search?
I live in the UK and it's really annoying that the Google results are always American. How can I configure Firefox to use google.co.uk instead of google.com?
