+cc Peter Kasting Hi Peter,
Regarding your quoted response above about "no search suggest and no NavSuggest" from: http://www.tomergabel.com/GettingGoogleChromeToBehave.aspx will that still happen if we create a new search engine that *includes* all of the original search parameters from the original Google search engine, but only replacing {google:baseURL} with http://www.google.com/ (and making this new search engine the default)? My guess is we will still get search suggest and NavSuggest, but perhaps not localized to our Google homepage, but rather coming from Google USA (google.com)? Would that be correct? This is exactly what I was referring to in my procedure steps (2) and (7). On Jul 23, 11:45 am, Prasenjeet Dutta <[email protected]> wrote: > > Therefore, to use a specific search provider (eg. google.com > > or google.co.uk, or whichever) you need to modify the > > default search engine. > > Will doing these steps give me Search Suggestions etc, the way the > default Google entry does? Someone proposed a similar solution on the > page I linked to; someone from the Chromium team replied saying: > The proposed solution you give, involving creating a new entry, > will result in no search suggest and no NavSuggest, leading to > a subpar experience. This isn't recommended. > > On Firefox/IE, I can create an OpenSearchDescription file that will > search a specific Google site *and* use search suggestions > (seehttp://tr.im/tJ6rfor example). I do wish Chrome wasn't quite as > inflexible in setting up a new search engine. > > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:26 PM, krtulmay<[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Omnibox defaults to using the default search engine in the list of > > Search Engines. Therefore, to use a specific search provider (eg. > > google.com or google.co.uk, or whichever) you need to modify the > > default search engine. Here's how: > > > (1) Right-click the Omnibox and select "Edit search engines" > > > (2) If you care about the specific query string and parameters to your > > current search engine (eg. Google), first click and hightlight your > > current default search engine, then click Edit, hightlight and copy > > the contents of the URL line, and paste it into a temporary text > > file. The reason is that the usually default Google search engine > > sometimes does not allow it to be edited. Then "Cancel" back to the > > Search Engines list. > > > (3) If you want to modify your Google search engine but it is also the > > default, sometimes it is not editable. The easiest way I find to get > > around this is to first click and highlight another search engine and > > make that the default by clicking "Make Default". > > > (4) Click and highlight the Google search engine that is giving you > > problems and "Remove" it. > > > (5) Check if you have any other Google search engines with the keyword > > you want to use by looking under the Keyword column. If there are, > > you can just click, highlight, and "Edit" that one. If not, click > > "Add" to create a new one. > > > (6) The Name entry can be anything. The Keyword entry is used to > > trigger the search. If you're setting up for google.com search, enter > > "google.com"; if you want google.co.uk search, enter "google.co.uk". > > > (7) In the URL entry, make sure the search URL starts with the Google > > search you want to use and don't use {google:baseURL}. You can also > > add in any specific search parameters you saved from the temporary > > text file. For example, the simplest Google search queries are: > >http://www.google.com/search?q=%s > >http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%s > > Then click "OK" to save the search engine. > > > (8) Click and highlight your updated search engine and click "Make > > Default" for it to be automatically used by the Omnibox search. Then > > "Close" the search engine list. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
