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lupo666

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Dec 5, 2009, 9:59:46 AM12/5/09
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Hi, I use all common browsers to test websites and/or on-line services
I provide to my clients and/or use at work...

In IE, FF and Chrome, I was able to disable the autosearch feature in
the address bar, something I cannot seem to do in Opera 10...

What I mean is: if I type "bing" in the address bar, I want it to go
to google and search for bing, NOT go directly to bing.com...

I know about "g bing", but this is NOT what I need. I just don't want
to end up on some questionable site, just because I was searching for
something right off the address bar...

Thank you in advance fr any help you may provide...

Ciao, Lupo

Remco Lanting

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Dec 5, 2009, 10:42:33 AM12/5/09
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lupo666

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Dec 5, 2009, 1:19:25 PM12/5/09
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Perfect! It works like a charm! THANK YOU SO MUCH! The only thing I
didn't understand was point 5:

5. Put the search url (you can find ready to go ones in the search
preferences) into "HostName Web Lookup Address"

Didn't understand where to look, but I used the same string I used in
FF for the same scope and it worked perfectly...

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

If you could point in the right direction for point 5, it would be
wonderful!

Thank you, Lupo

On Dec 5, 4:42 pm, "Remco Lanting"
<remco.lant...@no.spam.at.gmail.com.please> wrote:


> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:59:46 +0100, lupo666 <lupo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I use all common browsers to test websites and/or on-line services
> > I provide to my clients and/or use at work...
>
> > In IE, FF and Chrome, I was able to disable the autosearch feature in
> > the address bar, something I cannot seem to do in Opera 10...
>
> > What I mean is: if I type "bing" in the address bar, I want it to go
> > to google and search for bing, NOT go directly to bing.com...
>
> > I know about "g bing", but this is NOT what I need. I just don't want
> > to end up on some questionable site, just because I was searching for
> > something right off the address bar...
>
> > Thank you in advance fr any help you may provide...
>
> > Ciao, Lupo
>

> http://my.opera.com/remcolanting/blog/2009/02/24/single-word-search-i...


>
> --
> Remco Lanting
>
> [Unofficial Opera bug tracker links]http://opera.remcol.ath.cx/bugs|  http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=217364|  

> remco.lanting+operabugt...@gmail.com

Remco Lanting

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Dec 5, 2009, 1:31:58 PM12/5/09
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On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:19:25 +0100, lupo666 <lup...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Perfect! It works like a charm! THANK YOU SO MUCH! The only thing I
> didn't understand was point 5:
>
> 5. Put the search url (you can find ready to go ones in the search
> preferences) into "HostName Web Lookup Address"
>
> Didn't understand where to look, but I used the same string I used in
> FF for the same scope and it worked perfectly...
>
> http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
>
> If you could point in the right direction for point 5, it would be
> wonderful!
>
> Thank you, Lupo
>

Tools -> preferences -> search tab

--
Remco Lanting

remco.lanting...@gmail.com

lupo666

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Dec 5, 2009, 5:05:20 PM12/5/09
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Got it! Thank you again! Ciao, Lupo

On Dec 5, 7:31 pm, "Remco Lanting"
<remco.lant...@no.spam.at.gmail.com.please> wrote:

> remco.lanting+operabugt...@gmail.com

lupo666

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Dec 5, 2009, 5:54:33 PM12/5/09
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One other thing, please: I am installing a couple of widgets and I
cannot seem to sort them alphabetically. Even if I open manage
widgets, sort them by name, next time I restart Opera, they go back to
being listed as I downloaded them...

Is it a bug or am I missing something?

Ciao, Lupo

Whoosh

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Dec 5, 2009, 9:12:19 PM12/5/09
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Opera has some built in tools for easier searching for Amazon, Yahoo, Ebay and Wikipedia using 1 letter to denote what you want to search.
AMAZON http://redir.opera.com/amazon/?q=%s
EBAY http://redir.opera.com/ebay/?q=%s
YAHOO http://yahoo.opera.com/search/?q=%s&fr=opera2
WIKIPEDIA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

What I can't figure out is how to add one. I'd like to add Yahoo Advanced Search and Google Advanced Search and others. Is there some formula you use? Just looking at the URL's makes it look like Amazon and Ebay are similar but Yahoo is different and Wikipedia is way different.


Eik

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Dec 5, 2009, 11:16:08 PM12/5/09
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On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:12:19 -0000, Whoosh
<reply-t...@no-email.thanks> wrote:

> Opera has some built in tools for easier searching for Amazon, Yahoo,

> What I can't figure out is how to add one.

Right-click on the text box of a search form and select the option to
'Create search'.

Whoosh

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Dec 6, 2009, 12:10:19 AM12/6/09
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>> Opera has some built in tools for easier searching for Amazon, Yahoo,
>> What I can't figure out is how to add one.
>
> Right-click on the text box of a search form and select the option to
> 'Create search'.

Brilliant shortcut.
Except with Google Advanced Search it doesn't work. I'm in the basic search.

Jens Schuessler

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Dec 6, 2009, 8:06:11 PM12/6/09
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* Whoosh <reply-t...@no-email.thanks> [06-12-09 05:10]:

Alt-P -- Search -- Add new

Not sure about the last one, I've german language.

Adress:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=%s

and then you have to define a shortcut for the search

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Jens Schuessler

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Dec 6, 2009, 11:09:13 PM12/6/09
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* ASCII <m...@privacy.net> [07-12-09 02:45]:
> I use Scroogle scraper as an overlay for Google
> http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?Gw=%s
> named it [&Scroogle] with the letter "S" as the keyword
> and set it as the default.
> If you don't know what Scroogle is or does?
> http://www.scroogle.org/
>
*I* know what Scroogle is and i use it sometimes. but the *OP* wants
to know how to add *Google Advanced*, and so I told him

Whoosh

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Dec 7, 2009, 9:22:04 PM12/7/09
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> I use Scroogle scraper as an overlay for Google
> http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?Gw=%s
> named it [&Scroogle] with the letter "S" as the keyword
> and set it as the default.
> If you don't know what Scroogle is or does?
> http://www.scroogle.org/

That Scroogle search shortcut works great. How did you get it? When I right click the search bar in Scroogle, click Create Search, I get this:
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi
But below it I see
Gw=%s&n=2
for the query string and Use Post is checked. It uses Gw=%s but not the &n=2 characters. Clear as mud.
Opera really needs to make this more clear. Not 1% of average users will catch on to this. Why hide these great features I wonder?

Whoosh

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Dec 7, 2009, 9:33:11 PM12/7/09
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When I do here: http://www.google.com/advanced_search and right click the search bar, Create Search, I get this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=%s&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images
Nothing else is activated. I wonder why its not working?
Your link above:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=%s
worked perfectly.

When I do the same with Yahoo I get this:
http://ca.yahoo.com/r/csim?p=%s&fr=yfp-t-501&type=&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8
I wonder what is causing the URL to be so long?


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Whoosh

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Dec 8, 2009, 10:59:40 AM12/8/09
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>> That Scroogle search shortcut works great. How did you get it?
>
> From Opera part on Scroogle's site http://www.scroogle.org/

I was hoping for an explanation as to what symbols to use so I can do it myself. Sure seems cryptic. Does anybody understand what the characters mean that are used to focus from a point on a webpage search field?

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