Brian Heinrich wrote:
> Matt Williams wrote:
>
>> alpha wrote:
>>
>>> [This followup was posted to netscape.public.mozilla.general and a
>>> copy was sent to the cited author.]
>>>
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>>>
>>>> On 03/21/2002 12:28 PM, alpha wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sometime ago there was a url to a mozilla project that would let
>>>>> you add search engines to the sidebar.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have lost the url to this site could a helping hand please please
>>>>> post that url again!.
>>>>>
>>>> http://mycroft.mozdev.org/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for helping me out.
>>> But why so few links that can be added to sidebare. ?
>>>
>>> Liste time I did visit this site it had lots of search engines to add.
>>>
>>
>> *Believe it or not, this very good Search Engine solution is courtesy
>> of Kyle Bundy, and has been commended by Jay Garcia.*
>>
>>> Okay, this is how to make your address search for you without the
>>> spyware. Once you master it, you will love searching this way, and it
>>> is very easy. It works with 6.2 and recent Mozilla builds. There
>>> might be an easy tweak for this in Mozilla but I know this will work
>>> for sure.
>>>
>>> I will use google for my example.
>>>
>>> 1) Go to www.google.com and type in one search word ( I used bundy )
>>> it sends you to this page in Mozilla
>>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=bundy
>>>
>>> Now replace the word bundy with %s
>>>
>>> It should show like this now
>>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=%s
>>>
>>> highlight the address using your mouse, and ctrl-c to copy it or
>>> Edit/Copy from the menu.
>>>
>>> 2) Open Bookmarks/Manage Bookmarks: Open a new folder and name it
>>> what you want but I name mine Search Bookmarks.
>>>
>>> 3) Then highlight the new folder you made, then File / New Bookmark
>>> from the menu
>>>
>>> 4) Then for name, I use Google Search ( you can call it what you
>>> want), then for url it is
>>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=%s
>>>
>>>
>>> which you should of copied. Use paste to put it in.
>>>
>>> 5)Now hit ok then highlight the new bookmark you made and right
>>> click, go to properities and will show a shortcut box. Use the letter
>>> g for the shortcut. Description not important. Exit the Edit bookmarks.
>>>
>>> 6) now the fun.
>>> Go type in your address bar g keyword like g netscape
>>>
>>> Guess what, it takes you right to google with the serach word
>>> netscape!!! Easy to do without going through AOL/netscape crap!!!!
>>> The possibilites are endless here are some more examples. You can put
>>> 100's of shortcuts searches right on your address bar!
>>>
>>> Altavista
>>> http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text=yes&q=%s
>>> shortcut av
>>> address bar: av keyword
>>>
>>> Yahoo
>>> http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%s
>>> shortcut y
>>> address bar: y keyword
>>>
>>> Internet Movie Data Base
>>> http://www.imdb.com/Tsearch?%s
>>> shortcut movie
>>> address bar: movie keyword
>>>
>>> The %s is a wild card for your search word. Use as many as you wish
>>>
>>> g i hate netscape and gecko
>>> will search google for all those words just like entering them in the
>>> site!!!
>>>
>>> DMOZ
>>> http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=%s
>>> shortcut: dmoz
>>> Address bar: dmoz keyword
>>>
>>> I got a dozen set up now on Netscape.
>>> Makes life for me easy.
>>>
>>>
>>> You can also just do a ctrl-d on any search engine search then go
>>> back and edit the url saved by removing the search term and adding %s
>>> in its place then slapping a shortcut on to it.
>>>
>>> Anyhow, I hope this helps.
>>> I still think Netscape sucks compared to IE but hey, this might help
>>> you all out just a little.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kyle
>>>
>>
>
> Y'know, that's actually pretty clever. Except for the 'should of' and
> the little bit of Netscape bashing at the end, you'd never have thought
> it could've been Bundy.
>
> Brian
>
That's what Jay said to Kyle a couple of days ago. If Kyle would put half as much
effort into coming up with positive things as he puts into bashing, think what a power
user he would be, and hopefully make us all.
