Questions tagged [search-engines]
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Custom DuckDuckGo search engine in Firefox >= 57 Quantum
I use DuckDuckGo search engine.
I have customized it and saved my settings to the cloud.
Now I would like to use the customized version as my default Firefox 57 search engine.
Is it possible to edit ...
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Opera 49.0 Can't Edit and Remove Default Search Engines (/ncr)
I want to use "google.com/ncr" but I can't edit or remove default search engines in Opera Browser. There is no way to do that.
Redirection is pointless for me. I just want to search and get results ...
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Google Chrome keeps disabling a search engine shortcut
I recently changed my pc and I was always using the press tab to search on a site feature of chrome.
I imported all my settings through the google account thingy but for whatever reason I was missing ...
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Stop Firefox from suggesting site-specific search engines
I would like to disable Firefox's feature that suggests adding the search engine for the site I'm currently on to my available search engines. For example, if I click on the magnifying glass right now ...
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How did I inadvertently change the default search engine?
Occasionally upon entering a search term in the address bar, I discover that the default search engine has somehow changed from Google to Amazon.de (the second one in my list of search engines). I am ...
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Bing predictive search in Chrome doesn't work
I recently changed my default search engine in Chrome to Bing custom search (http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=%s).
After this, I am not able to use predictive search in Chrome. It seems ...
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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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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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Not sure how to add "POST" query parameters to "Add custom search engine" extension in Firefox
I'm currently trying to add AZLyrics to my list of available search engines in Firefox, using the Add custom search engine extension by Tom Schuster.
Searching for "test" in AZLyrics yields ...
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How do I stop search engines from changing my searches?
Sometimes search engines will give you a suggestion link for what they think you meant, and I'm fine with this. However, when the search engine, right off the bat, ignores half the words in my search, ...
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On any websites search bar, is there a way to make it recognize special symbols such as the # sign?
I'm looking up flashcards on a website and predictably it ignores the # sign in C#, so my results are all over the place. Is there any kind of escape character voodoo that works with search engines ...
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How to enable Google Chrome automatically adding websites to my list of search engines?
Today I cleaned chrome's cache and found it lost many other search engine
, only left some.
I don't know where this other search engine gone and how them generated at first. But it is need much ...
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Rambler under Google search engine
These days somehow it started that whenever I search something with Google or any of my search engines in Opera only, I get search result in Rambler (in Russian language). In Preferences I don't have ...
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No Country Redirect + Predictive search ( search suggestions) in Chrome omnibox
As I can see predictive search works well with default google search engine.
As described here, I change search engine to NCR mode:
http://www.google.com/search?{google:RLZ}{google:...
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Directly open top three Google results from address bar in Chrome
Recently a friend of mine noticed that I often open the first few Google results in tabs without looking at them first. Now I'd like to directly open the best Google results from the address bar. I ...
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Are Extended Attributes Indexed?
Are desktop search applications like Beagle or Tracker able to index extended attributes like they do with the other file's attributes? If so, that means that a user can define this extended ...
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Removal of Smart Web Search from system
Somehow Smart Web Search has been activated in my system. When I searched about it, I figured out that it's a hijacker program.
Is there any way to remove this thing? I tried to remove it but was ...
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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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Firefox - built in search engine toolbar broken
When I change the order of the search engines (Toolbar -> Manage Search Engines -> Move up / down -> Ok) it changes the order, until I close and reopen the browser. I can't imagine that's the way it'...
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Why is Firefox searching with Bing when it shouldn't be?
I have changed the Firefox default keyword.url in about:config to http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q= but when I search from the address bar it goes to Bing.
How is this possible? ...
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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 can I change the default (system) search engine for windows 10?
I would like to change the default system search engine from Bing to Google. I don't mean the default search engine of any browser, but the search engine that is used when searching in the windows ...
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What affects my search results using Brave Search engine?
I am using Brave Browser and LibreWolf on the same computer and I have realized that I can get totally different results using Brave Search looking for the same thing.
For example I have been looking ...
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Search in outlook , dont search in specific folder X
I am trying to set a search tool or any configuration for search , to search everywhere besides specific folder
( the best is that I can add and remove which folders not to search in , but also if I ...
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Search result is shown on Google search but not when searching on the site
I was searching the site https://www.hausarztberlin.de/hausarzt/ for "Knorpelschützende Substanzen" which led to following google search result page:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%...
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How to add a custom search engine in chromium 68.0.3440.75 in contextual menu like Opera?
I try to add custom search engines like Opera does, by right clicking on a custom search box : 'add custom search box'.
Is there any way with chromium 68.0.3440.75 ?
And how to use it without any ...
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How to modify Firefox default search engine url without getting hands dirty
I'd like to adjust default firefox search engine's URI by replacing www with enrypted. How can I achieve that without getting hands dirty with firefox extensions or addons? I want just open text ...
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Google services links in Chrome new tab missing
After making some changes to default search engines in chrome, on new tab I lost the bar in right top corner with direct links to G+, Gmail, Google apps drop-down list, notifications and account. Also ...
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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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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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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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How can i add a custom search to chrome when the URL doesn't change?
how can i add a custom search to chrome when the address doesn't change? I want to have a custom search of a site, https://www.mixcloud.com/, what do I put as the URL?
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Google search filter on URL of links on a page
Is there a way to search within a specific website for pages that contain links whose URL contains a certain search string?
For example:
- There is a website, www.website.com
- The website has a page ...
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