Wednesday 24 August 2011

Adding search engines to OS 7

The OS 7 browser has a great new feature allowing you to add your own search engines from just about anywhere. It's very easy to set-up too, although I found it just that bit simpler to email myself the long URL's and then copy-and-paste them into the 'manage search engines' feature located in the browser options.

Off the top of my head I simply added the first five that came to me. All you need to do is replace the search term word in a particular website with '%s' (without the quotation marks) and it should work just fine.

Here is a few to get you started:

1) Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%s&x=0&y=0

2) eBay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=%s&_sacat=See-All-Categories

3) Play.com: http://www.play.com/Search.html?searchtype=allproducts&searchsource=0&searchstring=%s

4) MobileFun: http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/search/?searchterm=%s&x=0&y=0

5) Crackberry: http://crackberry.com/googlesearch?zone_tag=homepage&cx=partner-pub-8460099860738313:nmiqw5p44m4&cof=FORID:9&sa=Search&hl=en_US&as_q=%s

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