More hits with search plugins

[EE]

How would I alter search plugins other than Google to get 100 results
per page instead of 10? Someone told me how to do that to the Google
search plugin, but different plugins use different syntax, and the trick
does not work with others. The ones I want to change are Start Page and
Clusty.

[s|b]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:52:46 -0700, EE wrote:

> How would I alter search plugins other than Google to get 100 results
> per page instead of 10?

Scroogle SSL search
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12506/>

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s|b

[EE]

I already use Scroogle. It keeps getting disabled. I want to know how
to get 100 hits with Start Page. Doing that with Clusty would be nice
as well.

[Ralph Fox]

To search for (say) 25 items in Clusty, use a URL string like this:

http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v:sources=webplus&v:state=root%7Croot-0-25%7C0&query=nunya%40bees.wax
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^  count
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  search string
[Substring position markers best viewed in a fixed-pitch font]

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Regards
Ralph

[Ralph Fox]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:56:57 -0700, in message <GNidndGVX5z6Z6DR...@mozilla.org>
EE wrote:

> How would I apply that to the search plugin? This is the format of its
> search string:
> <os:Url type="text/html" method="GET"
> template="http://clusty.com/search?query={searchTerms}&amp;tb=opensearch&amp;">
>
> When I tried adding your code into it, it did not work.

For 25 hits, try

<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET"
template="http://clusty.com/search?query={searchTerms}&amp;tb=opensearch&amp;v:state=root%7Croot-0-25%7C0">

> Using that as a
> bookmark address did not work either.

Very strange. What does happen when you click on this bookmark ?

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Regards
Ralph