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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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