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Protip for Firefox users: you can create your own custom search engines for any website by simply creating a new bookmark of the form "https://www.google.com/se

Protip for Firefox users: you can create your own custom search engines for any website by simply creating a new bookmark of the form "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com" and set the bookmark keyword to whatever prefix you prefer e.g. "r". This config will let me search reddit by typing "r vuejs" my Firefox's address bar

greentfrapp 5y ago
TIL! +100
3OCSzk 5y ago
Adding to the protip: there is https://mycroftproject.com https://mycroftproject.com that is full of premade custom search engines to save you the hassle of making them manually
jackallis 5y ago
can you expand that further how to for the non-initiated.
- trinovantes 5y ago
  I posted some screenshots on my website https://www.stephenli.ca/blocking-spam-websites-from-google-search-in-firefox https://www.stephenli.ca/blocking-spam-websites-from-google-... Basically Firefox substitutes the text of your query into the %s part of the bookmark URL
joshuamarksmith 5y ago
Works in Chrome too. I use the shortcut "rs" for https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com for searching reddit, and the shortcut "r" to go directly to the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/%s https://www.reddit.com/r/%s
- ayush000 5y ago
  How exactly did you do that?
  - prepostertron 5y ago
    Should be under Chrome Settings -> Search engine -> Manage search engines and site search -> Site search. You can add your custom search with the %s placeholder, a shortcut to use in the address bar, and name.
    - halfjoking 5y ago
      Also available in Edge. I had to add Brave Search manually to set it as the default search.
phrz 5y ago
xSearch for Safari is great for this on Mac and iOS. I've made a bunch of custom !bang search engines on top of those supported by DuckDuckGo. It really speeds up research on various databases.
cwillu 5y ago
You can do the same on chrome: right click on the url bar → manage search engines → set a keyword to the prefix you prefer and the url with %s for the search term in the same way.
sedatk 5y ago
Doesn't work with Edge :(
- sccxy 5y ago
  Settings - "Manage search engines" - Add new one Works very well with any site.
  - sedatk 5y ago
    Awesome, I didn't know search engine settings had "keyword" feature. Thanks!
nvrspyx 5y ago
For DuckDuckGo users, you can just use a !bang. !r for searching on Reddit directly, !sr to go to a specific subreddit, !searchr for searching Reddit through DDG, and !greddit for searching Reddit through Google. To see other Reddit options, !bangs Reddit. https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- NAHWheatCracker 5y ago
  It's too bad they have !r go the the Reddit search page, which is famously bad. I didn't know about !searchr, wish it was shorter. At least it's better than what I've been doing which is typing out site:reddit.com.
  - boomboomsubban 5y ago
    From further down this post, !ddgr works too.
- InCityDreams 5y ago
  https://duckduckgo.com/?kl=wt-wt&kp=-2&kn=1&kaj=m&kay=b&kv=m&kak=-1&kax=-1&kao=-1&kau=-1&kt=v&kae=d&ka=v&ku=1&kaf=s&kai=b https://duckduckgo.com/?kl=wt-wt&kp=-2&kn=1&kaj=m&kay=b&kv=m... ...my default/ basic DDG search. I ublock all the graphics and stuff, too.
  - xigoi 5y ago
    What do the parameters do?
    - capableweb 5y ago
      Here is a list of url params duckduckgo offers: https://duckduckgo.com/params https://duckduckgo.com/params I'm too tired to match them to parents link, but should help a little bit at least :)
Beta-7 5y ago
This is amazing. I've been using DDG mostly for the bangs and really wished there was a way to add custom bangs (I suggested them to DDG, but never got a response). This is just what i needed.
- modernerd 5y ago
  You can submit your own for consideration if you have a custom one in mind that might be helpful to others: https://duckduckgo.com/newbang https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
  - Beta-7 5y ago
    That's what i meant by suggesting a bang. The bang was the equivalent of `!dictionary`, but in my native language. I guess not enough people here use DDG for it to be considered.
- kzrdude 5y ago
  Great that you got to know it. "Mozilla keywords" is an age-old feature, probably from before firefox existed.
layer8 5y ago
On mobile I use global (OS-level) text abbreviations to auto-convert “sr” to “site:reddit.com”.
layer8 5y ago
This isn’t really relevant anymore, but even Internet Explorer had that feature ("SearchUrl") since IE3 in 1996. While not well-known, it’s a must-have browser feature IMO.
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RheingoldRiver 5y ago
Though there's some risk of it going away in an upcoming patch, you can also use JavaScript and do pretty much anything you want in a bookmarklet keyword, creating very powerful "advanced searches" for yourself. I have a few examples outlined here - https://river.me/blog/firefox-keep-bookmark-keywords/#bookmarklets-with-keywords-can-do-anything-right-now https://river.me/blog/firefox-keep-bookmark-keywords/#bookma...

greentfrapp 5y ago

TIL! +100

3OCSzk 5y ago

Adding to the protip: there is https://mycroftproject.com https://mycroftproject.com that is full of premade custom search engines to save you the hassle of making them manually

jackallis 5y ago

can you expand that further how to for the non-initiated.

trinovantes 5y ago
I posted some screenshots on my website https://www.stephenli.ca/blocking-spam-websites-from-google-search-in-firefox https://www.stephenli.ca/blocking-spam-websites-from-google-... Basically Firefox substitutes the text of your query into the %s part of the bookmark URL

joshuamarksmith 5y ago

Works in Chrome too. I use the shortcut "rs" for https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com for searching reddit, and the shortcut "r" to go directly to the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/%s https://www.reddit.com/r/%s

ayush000 5y ago
How exactly did you do that?
- prepostertron 5y ago
  Should be under Chrome Settings -> Search engine -> Manage search engines and site search -> Site search. You can add your custom search with the %s placeholder, a shortcut to use in the address bar, and name.
  - halfjoking 5y ago
    Also available in Edge. I had to add Brave Search manually to set it as the default search.

phrz 5y ago

xSearch for Safari is great for this on Mac and iOS. I've made a bunch of custom !bang search engines on top of those supported by DuckDuckGo. It really speeds up research on various databases.

cwillu 5y ago

You can do the same on chrome: right click on the url bar → manage search engines → set a keyword to the prefix you prefer and the url with %s for the search term in the same way.

sedatk 5y ago

Doesn't work with Edge :(

sccxy 5y ago
Settings - "Manage search engines" - Add new one Works very well with any site.
- sedatk 5y ago
  Awesome, I didn't know search engine settings had "keyword" feature. Thanks!

nvrspyx 5y ago

For DuckDuckGo users, you can just use a !bang. !r for searching on Reddit directly, !sr to go to a specific subreddit, !searchr for searching Reddit through DDG, and !greddit for searching Reddit through Google. To see other Reddit options, !bangs Reddit. https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang

NAHWheatCracker 5y ago
It's too bad they have !r go the the Reddit search page, which is famously bad. I didn't know about !searchr, wish it was shorter. At least it's better than what I've been doing which is typing out site:reddit.com.
- boomboomsubban 5y ago
  From further down this post, !ddgr works too.
InCityDreams 5y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?kl=wt-wt&kp=-2&kn=1&kaj=m&kay=b&kv=m&kak=-1&kax=-1&kao=-1&kau=-1&kt=v&kae=d&ka=v&ku=1&kaf=s&kai=b https://duckduckgo.com/?kl=wt-wt&kp=-2&kn=1&kaj=m&kay=b&kv=m... ...my default/ basic DDG search. I ublock all the graphics and stuff, too.
- xigoi 5y ago
  What do the parameters do?
  - capableweb 5y ago
    Here is a list of url params duckduckgo offers: https://duckduckgo.com/params https://duckduckgo.com/params I'm too tired to match them to parents link, but should help a little bit at least :)

Beta-7 5y ago

This is amazing. I've been using DDG mostly for the bangs and really wished there was a way to add custom bangs (I suggested them to DDG, but never got a response). This is just what i needed.

modernerd 5y ago
You can submit your own for consideration if you have a custom one in mind that might be helpful to others: https://duckduckgo.com/newbang https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
- Beta-7 5y ago
  That's what i meant by suggesting a bang. The bang was the equivalent of `!dictionary`, but in my native language. I guess not enough people here use DDG for it to be considered.
kzrdude 5y ago
Great that you got to know it. "Mozilla keywords" is an age-old feature, probably from before firefox existed.

layer8 5y ago

On mobile I use global (OS-level) text abbreviations to auto-convert “sr” to “site:reddit.com”.

layer8 5y ago

This isn’t really relevant anymore, but even Internet Explorer had that feature ("SearchUrl") since IE3 in 1996. While not well-known, it’s a must-have browser feature IMO.

deleted 5y ago

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RheingoldRiver 5y ago

Though there's some risk of it going away in an upcoming patch, you can also use JavaScript and do pretty much anything you want in a bookmarklet keyword, creating very powerful "advanced searches" for yourself. I have a few examples outlined here - https://river.me/blog/firefox-keep-bookmark-keywords/#bookmarklets-with-keywords-can-do-anything-right-now https://river.me/blog/firefox-keep-bookmark-keywords/#bookma...