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Old 12-21-2012, 06:33 AM   #16
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Google is my first choice, sometimes it hanged, I use Bing.
 
Old 12-30-2012, 05:58 PM   #17
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Some engine search strings for your browsers search bar.

Code:
[Start Page]
name=Start Page
uri=https://startpage.com/do/search?language=english_au&cat=web&query=

[Google]
name=Google
text=Web Search
uri=http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

[Google Books]
name=Google Books
uri=http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=

[DuckDuckGo]
name=DuckDuckGo
text=
uri=https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=

[IxQuick]
name=IxQuick
uri=https://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=

[Yahoo]
name=Yahoo
text=
uri=http://search.yahoo.com/search?q=

[Bing]
name=Bing
uri=http://www.bing.com/search?q=

[Wikipedia]
name=Wikipedia
text=
uri=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%s

[Websters]
name=Websters
uri=http://www.webster-dictionary.org/d.aspx?w=%s

[The Free Dictionary]
name=The Free Dictionary
text=Dictionary Encyclopedia Thesaurus
uri=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/%s
http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/
 
Old 12-30-2012, 06:21 PM   #18
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Some engine search strings for your browsers search bar.

Code:
[Start Page]
name=Start Page
uri=https://startpage.com/do/search?language=english_au&cat=web&query=

[Google]
name=Google
text=Web Search
uri=http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

[Google Books]
name=Google Books
uri=http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=

[DuckDuckGo]
name=DuckDuckGo
text=
uri=https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=

[IxQuick]
name=IxQuick
uri=https://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=

[Yahoo]
name=Yahoo
text=
uri=http://search.yahoo.com/search?q=

[Bing]
name=Bing
uri=http://www.bing.com/search?q=

[Wikipedia]
name=Wikipedia
text=
uri=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%s

[Websters]
name=Websters
uri=http://www.webster-dictionary.org/d.aspx?w=%s

[The Free Dictionary]
name=The Free Dictionary
text=Dictionary Encyclopedia Thesaurus
uri=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/%s
http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/
Delicious. Thanks!

The only edit/recommendation which I would make would be to substitute

Code:
https://encrypted.google.com/webhp#q=%s
for

Code:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
 
  


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