Why not just add a bookmark for your favorite search engine?
Randy
On Jul 29, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I haven't tried this but this tutorial shows how to hack Safari to
go to Yahoo or whatever:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030514035516436
Seems that as long as the URL string is still the same length you
can change it to something else. I also found links to something
called SafariStand which, among other things, lets you modify how
search works
http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html
I also saw some mentions of AcidSearch which modifies the Safari
Search with a bunch of options.
http://www.pozytron.com/acidsearch
That said, I like Google so I really don't need any of this stuff. I
suspect Safari would notice if your localization is, say, Germany
and use google.de, but I've never tried that. What's also handy is
the site: parameter so I can just google for
bill gates aol email payment site:snopes.com
to limit my search to just that site. Snopes.com is a site which
tracks various chain mails and verifies their truthfulness. I was
surprised how many stories actually are true. Like this one:
http://snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp
CB
Jane Lee wrote:
Speaking of Cuil, you're not missing much. All the results are
ridiculous if
you're used to Google, Yahoo and others. Nothing relevant comes up
and it's
organized in the most illogical way. I'm surprised it was hyped as
much as
it has been in the past few days.
cheers,
jane
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Janet and Felix * <
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I was going to post what I found out, but not I'm afraid of being
off
topic! laugh. You are right. Not a good program. Not VO
friendly. And
could not do what I wanted. Just as well. Cuil not VO friendly
either.
Peace,
janet
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:04:47 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Inquisitor 3
I'm not a fan of inquisitor. It is well known for having a shady
developer
who sucks at providing customer support. There was a big thing
about this
earlier in the year where someone discovered that there were
results
provided by inquisitor that were really amazon affiliate links and
whatnot,
without marking them as such. now it does mark affiliate links,
but i
still
don't really want to support this guy. google "dave watanabe",
more links
than not will be complaining about his attitude.
cheers,
jane
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Janet and Felix * <
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Okay, I'm going to do it. Yikes. I get scared sometimes
downloading
software that doesn't seem to be very well known!
Thanks for your comment.
Janet
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:29:42 -0800
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Subject: Re: Inquisitor 3
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i havn't but would like to here what u find out
On Jul 28, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Janet and Felix * wrote:
Has anyone tried Inquisitor 3 ?
http://www.download.com/Inquisitor/3000-2145_4-10745009.html
In my search for information on how to change the default search
engine, I came across Inquisitor 3. One bit of information
claims
"Nowadays, we depend on search engine to get information from
around
the web. I myself depend very much on search engine. Currently,
Safari is using Google as its default search engine.
But here comes the issue, a setting will never satisfy the
mind of
several millions people surfing the web. Some of us maybe want
to
use Google UK as our default search engine, some maybe prefer
using
Yahoo!
With Inquisitor 3 installed on your Safari, you will be able to
change your Safari default search engine easily.
Here are the steps you need to do :
Download Inquisitor and follow the installation instruction
After you've finished installing Inquisitor, relaunch your
Safari
for the change to take effect
Go to Safari ▸ Preferences
Click on Search section to modify settings for Inquisitor
In the last option box, you should be able to choose your
default
search engine"
Source link for above info
http://www.usingmac.com/2008/6/18/change-safari-default-search-engine
So now I'm just wondering if anyone has actually tried this,
and how
they like it! And how vo friendly is this application?
I guess I can be brave and try it first, if no one else has.
janet
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