Questions tagged [google-search]
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Firefox drop down selections
Sometimes when I search at google, the auto-suggested search
queries are selected in a random order. The drop down will
appear, but when I hit the down arrow, something random like
the 3rd item is ...
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How Do I Disable Google Search Autocorrect?
I'm using Chrome right now and Google's auto-correct "feature" is really grating on my nerves. It's constantly merging two words into one and screwing with what I type. I don't care if I make a ...
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What's the new URL for a Google Images "Quick Search" bookmark in Firefox?
The above bookmark used to let me search Google Images by typing goimg mysearchterms in the address bar, in Firefox.
Now, I get this.
Obviously, Google has changed something. But, I can't figure ...
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Add google.ie to IE9
After recently reinstalling windows I now find that iegallery does not offer the create your own search provider any more - I get a 404 if you use the old link.
How can I add google.ie to IE9, only ...
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Firefox keeps switching to yahoo when I want google
I am using firefox 7.0.1. and noticed that it kept on defaulting to using yahoo as its search engine. I then tried selecting "Manage search engines..." and deleted all of them other than google. Sadly ...
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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's blue arrow doesn't show up until I TAB
I didn't really know what to name this question, and I have no idea what's causing this either.
Usually when you do a google search a little arrow shows up to the left of the first result, so all ...
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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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Why do Google Images and YouTube work although I have images / Flash blocked?
I use a couple add-ons for Firefox that block Flash and images if I choose them to.
However, they work well when I do a Google search for images and watch YouTube videos. How could it be that those ...
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Use Google Search as Google Chrome's spell checker
I think that the Google Chrome spell checker is terrible. I know that Google (the search engine) has a superb spell checker for users who submit queries into its search engine.
Is there any way to ...
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Where can I find a google search results re-linker for Google Chrome that works?
There used to be some grease monkey scripts that helped relink results directly from the Google search (see here and here for regular results, and here and here for image results.)
I really enjoyed ...
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Google search: when I try to edit in search box; cursor jumps to the end
My problem is with using google.
1) do a search, e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=THIS+IS+VERY+UNIQUE+SEARCH+QUERY
2) when you are at results page, click on search query box (the editbox with my ...
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Is there a way to search for PDFs by the number of pages they have?
e.g. I often use filetype:pdf to search for PDFs on Google. It would be great if I could combine this with a filesize or number of pages keyword, or even if I could just preview these data in the ...
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Google search by image - Completely fails - drag and drop just loads image in browser
I am trying to use Google Search by Image, which was apparently implemented in July.
Here are the instructions
You are supposed to be able to drag an image from your computer onto the search box at ...
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Chrome keyboard shortcut for paste and search?
Chrome keyboard shortcut for paste and search?
When we right click the address bar, there is an option for us to do "paste and search". I'm wondering is there an alternative shortcut for Ctrl-V + ...
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How can I find out the number of Google search results for a query?
I'm not a native English speaker, so whenever I type a sentence I always wonder if it is correct or informal use. My current approach is to input the sentence in Google Search and see how many results ...
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what's the whole point of the query/Ctrl-E in Chrome
In Chrome, If i type anything in the omnibar, it will search google for whatever I have typed.
If i do a query (Ctrl-E, which basically inserts a question mark at the start of the omnibar and seems ...
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Bookmark application that shows bookmarks in Google search [closed]
I have a lot of bookmarks, but do not look at them, because they are cluttered and hard to find.
Is there any application/addon that shows results from my bookmarks at the top of the results page, ...
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Google blocked in Firefox version 3, other pages fine, works in other browsers
After some time of using Firefox (v.3x) I can no longer access google.com. The page to google.com never loads either from address bar or quick search.
If I restart Firefox it works again for a while, ...
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Format Google search box on toolbar to search under google.com.au
I used to be able to search google.com.au using the quick search box on the toolbar. Ever since i updated firefox though, this goes straight to google.com - is there anyway i can revert it to google....
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Adding custom search engines to Internet Explorer 9
How do I add Wikipedia and Google in the search bar in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9?
Where in the settings do I add such custom search engines?
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How can I fix the default search engine in Chromium on Linux Mint 11?
Lame. Linux Mint comes with some pretty nasty defaults as far as setting the default search engine go. How can I set it to Google proper? Can someone copy and paste the URL to use which is working for ...
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How can I share my Google Chrome search engine entries?
I have created some search entries in Google Chrome using 'Edit search engines'.
How can I share some of these entries with my colleagues?
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Chrome search bar automatically uses old search terms
I have a problem with my google chrome: When I try to search for a term which starts with a string that I previously searched for, that old search term is automatically used. So, assuming I searched ...
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Special characters in chrome
If I search for something containing non-ASCII characters from the address bar, using Google as the default search engine, any result that features the special characters in its URL is broken (the URL ...
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Google Chrome Search Language [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I force my browser to search Google in English?
How do I change Chrome's language for omnibox searches? If I just add another search engine for the local version of ...
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When copying a link from a Google search, how do I get rid of the "www.google.com" reference in the pasted link?
Often when I try to paste a link from google search into a document, I get a very long link that looks like it contains referring information. How do I get to the simple link, as if I went to the ...
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How to make Google Search scriptless with NoScript/AdBlock?
How to configure AdBlock or NoScript to make Google Search scriptless, but not to break multitude of pages that use Google's scripts (like if I "forbid google.com" in NoScipt)
@related https://...
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Google search for searching sites supporting HTTPS
What do i have to type in a google search that only gives hits (domains) supporting HTTPS?
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Why would Firefox not be able to visit Google anymore?
Lately I've noticed that my Firefox Browser was taking a long time when I would search Google, e.g. 3 seconds before I would see any results.
If I search for a three-word phrase, it just hangs trying ...
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Chrome popup: "It looks like you've moved... "
Not sure what happened over the weekend, but since this morning everytime I use google I get a popup from Chrome saying "It looks like you've moved. Would you like to use http://www.google.com/ ?" (...
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Is there a VIM plugin that lets you google the selected text?
I want to be able to select a text and have a command to open a google search in a browser.
Right now, I"m just copying and pasting. Are there any plugins that do this? I'm using Mac OSX.
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Google Chrome Instant blocks me from Google search
I've been using chrome instant for a while on chrome PC, but I just enabled it on my Mac did 2 google searches and now I'm suspected of making automated requests.
How can I use Google again, and why ...
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Google Chrome, Google Instant not working
When using Google Chrome (6.0.472.63) the "Google Instant" feature is seemingly unavailable; although it was working a week or so ago, I'm unsure when it actually stopped.
The Google Instant feature ...
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Delete Google search history?
I have Google search engines installed in Firefox 3.6, IE 8, and Google Chrome 5.0.
Is there a program that can delete all this search history at the same time in these three browsers?
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Exclude specific sites or urls from Google search results? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible with Google searches to ban any and all results from a domain?
When searching google a few sites constantly show up in my search results. However, these sites ...
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Google and Temporary internet files
I have noticed that when I do a search on Google multiple files are created in the Temporary Internet files folder (Microsoft Internet Explorer) relating to that one search, maybe up to 12 files for ...
Jon
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Choose between search and "I'm feeling lucky" at location bar
Normally when I type something that isn't a URL into the address bar I want to search for it, but sometimes I want to go straight to the site. Is there a way I can set Firefox up to do this?
I'd ...
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Location for Google search and Firefox wrong
On a workstation I administer when ever the user opens Firefox or use Google to search for something both think I am in the Netherlands rather than the US. I have checked the location and language ...
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Add google as my search engine again
Experimentally, I removed google from the list of possible search engines in the search bar on firefox. Now I can't find it again--apparently so few people need to actually add google that it's ...
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Why are my Google searches redirected?
This machine was infected with various malware. I have scanned the system with Malwarebytes. It found and removed some 600 or so infected files.
Now the machine seems to be running well with only one ...
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Google search with OS X spotlight
How can I use Spotlight to show Google search results?
The Google Importer is severely out of date, and does not work with 10.6.
And, if perhaps this isn't possible, I'd like to know the fastest and ...
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Where can I find an updated Google filter Greasmonkey script?
Recently, Google updated their search results page. Unfortunately, this broke pretty much every Greasemonkey script used on the results page, including the very useful filter scripts. I use these ...
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How can I change a search provider's URL in IE8?
Now that Google finally allows searching over HTTPS, I switched all my browsers to use https://google.com by default (I documented my effort in my blog). The only browser I couldn't change the URL ...
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Even googling not allowed ? Why?
Access has been denied 127.0.0.1!
Access to the page:
http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=F58&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=email+us&meta=&aq=f&...
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Firefox addon to search Google using "site:[current-website]" keyword?
I'm wondering is there an addon that lets you search (using default search bar preferably) the website in the current tab in Google with the "site:" keyword? This way I don't have to write the keyword ...
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Enable Google experiment permanently
I love the Google Keyboard shortcuts search experiment.
Note: the original link died, this archived page appears to refer to it: https://web.archive.org/web/20110508074540/http://www.google.com/...
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Language for google search field in firefox toolbar is wrong
I've got a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit) and for some reason the Google search field in the Firefox toolbar always searches google.jp. Given that I'm in Australia and struggle to read Japanese ...
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Change the default Google search domain [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Firefox 3.6 - Navigation Toolbar - Google search box language problem
I am currently working from Germany. From Firefox, if I give something to search in the Google search box ...
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Firefox 3.6 - Navigation Toolbar - Google search box language
Using Win7 Home Premium with Firefox 3.6
I like using the Google search box in the Navigation Toolbar because it's quicker to do a search but as I am English and I am in Thailand it seems to do the ...
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