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How can I change the default (system) search engine for windows 10?
I would like to change the default system search engine from Bing to Google. I don't mean the default search engine of any browser, but the search engine that is used when searching in the windows ...
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How to create a default Google query string
I'm not very technically-minded, but looking for a way to simplify some work processes.
Is there a way to create a specific Google query string that I can operate by default? As a (very) crude example ...
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On any websites search bar, is there a way to make it recognize special symbols such as the # sign?
I'm looking up flashcards on a website and predictably it ignores the # sign in C#, so my results are all over the place. Is there any kind of escape character voodoo that works with search engines ...
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How can I stop Google Chrome from prioritizing search results over previously visited websites?
The latest version of Google Chrome (74?) seems to have changed the search bar's behavior. It now lists search suggestions before previously visited websites.
I find this annoying and want it to work ...
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Custom DuckDuckGo search engine in Firefox >= 57 Quantum
I use DuckDuckGo search engine.
I have customized it and saved my settings to the cloud.
Now I would like to use the customized version as my default Firefox 57 search engine.
Is it possible to edit ...
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How to modify Firefox default search engine url without getting hands dirty
I'd like to adjust default firefox search engine's URI by replacing www with enrypted. How can I achieve that without getting hands dirty with firefox extensions or addons? I want just open text ...
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Change default Firefox Search URL
NO, I don't want to change my search engine provider (all answers I found were merely on that topic...) - I just want to adapt Google's URL both for the address bar search and the search widget right ...
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How to find all websites matching the pattern website.edu/~<some_string>?
It's common among university lecturers to have their own web pages on the university domain and share resources there. If the name of a professor is John Smith then he his website may be harvard.edu/~...
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Did eBay remove itself from the list of Firefox search engines?
Firefox 49.0.1
Windows 7 Pro 64bit SP1
I no longer see eBay as a search engine in Firefox and can't seem to add it in or restore it back. It's also missing from another Firefox based browser bundle....
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IP has my listed in wrong state... how do I change this? [duplicate]
Not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask this question, but my IP has me listed in Nebraska, and I'm in Atlanta, GA. It's becoming a nuisance because every search engine shows me Nebraska ...
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Search a keyword exactly only on a specific list of web-pages?
I have a list of 307 web-page URLs. Is it possible to tell Google (or another search engine) to search a specific keyword EXACTLY only on those 307 websites?
I have read some advices which tell to ...
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Using search prediction with custom Search Engine in Chrome
I am using a custom Search Engine in Google Chrome. Since I've changed it, URL predictions have completely stopped. How can I enable them again like they were earlier without changing the default ...
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Google: reverse search image by date?
Each time I try to combine the two I fail, yet this would be great to find the original version of an image.
For time range:
http://google.com/#q=search+string&tbm=isch&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%...
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No Country Redirect + Predictive search ( search suggestions) in Chrome omnibox
As I can see predictive search works well with default google search engine.
As described here, I change search engine to NCR mode:
http://www.google.com/search?{google:RLZ}{google:...
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Search W3Schools with search-URL?
It seems that the domain http://www.w3schools.com/ can be searched only if I go to their website and MANUALLY enter the search term into the search field.
Is it possible to search this domain (not ...
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Anything faster than grep? [closed]
I am looking for a tool that will be faster than grep, maybe a multi-threaded grep, or something similar... I have been looking at a bunch of indexers, but I am not sold that I need an index...
I ...
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How to remove web shops from search results? [closed]
Whenever you search information about some product you get bombarded by CEO optimized shopping sites and it is hard to get some real information about some product. If it is a really popular product ...
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Get DuckDuckGo non-Javascript version in Firefox search bar
I installed the DuckDuckGo AddOn that adds DuckDuckGo to the list of search engines in Firefox. This is the dropdown list in the upper right just to the left of the search bar that lets you pick which ...
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Setting a custom search engine as default in Opera
I would like to use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine in Opera.
Opera versions 17+ come with a search engine manager (Menu Settings > Search > Manage search engines...), where you can add custom ...
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Are Extended Attributes Indexed?
Are desktop search applications like Beagle or Tracker able to index extended attributes like they do with the other file's attributes? If so, that means that a user can define this extended ...
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Consistent I'm Feeling Lucky macro for Google
I'm making a little script with Autohotkey to quickly go to the first Google result of a search term.
My problem is, the only method I've found for doing this though the URL is acting a little ...
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How can I customize Firefox's search engines?
Recently I decided to use duckduckgo instead of google, and I installed it as a search engine.
The problem is that Firefox uses https://duckduckgo.com/opensearch.xml to know the search url. But I ...
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How do I view the occurence of my search on Google?
Often times when you type something into google, your phrase will come up in the little search preview but when you click the link itself lo and behold you cannot find your phrase anywhere. I remember ...
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how do i search for certain word in a website? [closed]
Is there any way to search within a website without manually checking out every link?
Suppose there is some website www.somewebsite.com and I want to search for a word in all of the pages www....
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Can't get Chrome search shortcut for IMDB to work anymore
Tried
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s&s=all
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%s
But when it loads the page, it loads http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all;q=%s (note the ...
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How to find all domains containing specific string
I want to know which different pedia's exist.
I want a list of all registered domains, which end with pedia.org, pedia.com or pedia.info, (e.g WIKIpedia.org or Anotherpedia.info).
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Chrome addon for Firefox search bar?
So in Firefox there's an address bar and a search bar right next to it. I happen to have 12-15 different search engines (for various sites) on the search bar.
It's become a habit of mine to click on ...
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Refining searches step by step
Say I am searching for job openings, most results would be uninteresting, for example I might get peoples CVs instead of job openings, or I might want to exclude posts from people who post a lot (...
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Desktop/server search engine with night time indexing
Is there some desktop/server search engine (such as Google Desktop or Copernic) satisfying the below requests.
Requests:
Must work on Windows server and Windows 7 environments.
Indexing can be ...
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Full-Text Search Through My Bookmarks?
I would like to be able to search through pages which I have bookmarked. Like a Google search but limited to my bookmarks.
Firefox allows you to search through your bookmarks but only the URL, Title ...
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