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Adding pre-made smart keyword searches

This tip is a follow-up to Friday’s Firefox tip thanks to Jason Row.

If you click the Google icon in the search box you will see a list of default search engines that include Amazon, Dictionary.com, eBay, and Yahoo! There is also the option to “Add engines…” which will take you to a page that allows you to add smart keyword searches, similar to the custom one you made in my last post, but these are already made for you! At last count there were almost 700 engines in a variety of topic areas like Arts, Shopping, Programming, and Business, including MSDN and Microsoft Support searches.


Posted 10-04-2004 11:55 AM by Darrell Norton

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Jeff Donnici wrote re: Adding pre-made smart keyword searches
on 10-04-2004 11:40 AM
Hi Darrell,

I actually spent some time with that over the weekend and found that creating those "search engine" plugins is pretty easy. I created one for www.codeproject.com as a test and posted it this morning:

http://jeff.donnici.com/archive/2004/10/04/191.aspx

Thanks for the tips on the MSDN code last week and the "search keyword" thing. I'm really diggin' Firefox these days.

Regards,

Jeff
Jason Row wrote re: Adding pre-made smart keyword searches
on 10-04-2004 12:39 PM
Nice work Jeff! I've recently started to follow codeproject.com so this will help me out.

Jason
Darrell wrote re: Adding pre-made smart keyword searches
on 10-05-2004 1:26 AM
I agree, very nice Jeff.