alpha wrote: > [This followup was posted to netscape.public.mozilla.general and a copy > was sent to the cited author.] > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > >>On 03/21/2002 12:28 PM, alpha wrote: >> >>>Sometime ago there was a url to a mozilla project that would let you add >>>search engines to the sidebar. >>> >>>I have lost the url to this site could a helping hand please please post >>>that url again!. >>> >>http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ >> > > Thank you very much for helping me out. > But why so few links that can be added to sidebare. ? > > Liste time I did visit this site it had lots of search engines to add. >
*Believe it or not, this very good Search Engine solution is courtesy of Kyle Bundy, and has been commended by Jay Garcia.* > Okay, this is how to make your address search for you without the spyware. Once you >master it, you will love searching this way, and it is very easy. It works with 6.2 >and recent Mozilla builds. There might be an easy tweak for this in Mozilla but I >know this will work for sure. > > I will use google for my example. > > 1) Go to www.google.com and type in one search word ( I used bundy ) > it sends you to this page in Mozilla > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=bundy > > Now replace the word bundy with %s > > It should show like this now > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=%s > > highlight the address using your mouse, and ctrl-c to copy it or Edit/Copy from the >menu. > > 2) Open Bookmarks/Manage Bookmarks: Open a new folder and name it what you want but >I name mine Search Bookmarks. > > 3) Then highlight the new folder you made, then File / New Bookmark from the menu > > 4) Then for name, I use Google Search ( you can call it what you want), then for url >it is http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=%s > > > which you should of copied. Use paste to put it in. > > 5)Now hit ok then highlight the new bookmark you made and right click, go to >properities and will show a shortcut box. Use the letter g for the shortcut. >Description not important. Exit the Edit bookmarks. > > 6) now the fun. > Go type in your address bar g keyword like g netscape > > Guess what, it takes you right to google with the serach word netscape!!! Easy to do >without going through AOL/netscape crap!!!! > The possibilites are endless here are some more examples. You can put 100's of >shortcuts searches right on your address bar! > > Altavista > http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text=yes&q=%s > shortcut av > address bar: av keyword > > Yahoo > http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%s > shortcut y > address bar: y keyword > > Internet Movie Data Base > http://www.imdb.com/Tsearch?%s > shortcut movie > address bar: movie keyword > > The %s is a wild card for your search word. Use as many as you wish > > g i hate netscape and gecko > will search google for all those words just like entering them in the site!!! > > DMOZ > http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=%s > shortcut: dmoz > Address bar: dmoz keyword > > I got a dozen set up now on Netscape. > Makes life for me easy. > > > You can also just do a ctrl-d on any search engine search then go back and edit the >url saved by removing the search term and adding %s in its place then slapping a >shortcut on to it. > > Anyhow, I hope this helps. > I still think Netscape sucks compared to IE but hey, this might help you all out >just a little. > > -- > Kyle >