Alexandria Search

Re:Alexandria Search by danuker on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:33PM (#30725824)

> because they are optimizing for the current state of the web.

I believe people will at least start looking for alternatives. For example, I have been collecting search engines, and whenever I encounter a page with too many commercial-laden SEO-porked results, I use a different search engine in Firefox.

I have enabled the Search Bar, I can do Alt+D, Tab, Tab, enter my query, then click a different search engine, which searches instantly, unlike the main bar, where you have to press Enter once more after clicking.

I just added this one also. See my collection: https://0bin.net/paste/ZSCRYVx1#sxD+jBIpScJismXBYwaoJPh75TH9...

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Re:Alexandria Search by blewboarwastake on Friday March 18, 2022 @05:48PM (#30727972)

Pro tip: Alt+E takes you directly to the search bar, then you can press Tab for selecting the search engine. The best part is that you never use the mouse this way. You can also use ddg bangs, they contain every search-engine/site by pressing Alt-D if you remember the bang for the site.

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Re:Alexandria Search by danuker on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:51PM (#30729175)

Alt+E takes me to the Edit menu.

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Re:Alexandria Search by projektfu on Saturday March 19, 2022 @05:33AM (#30732403)

Ctrl-E

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Re:Alexandria Search by coverband on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:36PM (#30726539)

Could you paste again as text links? Thanks.

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Re:Alexandria Search by danuker on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:35PM (#30729031)

Firefox uses a custom format for compressing the SEARCH ENGINES. I am appalled.

I had to do a `pip install lz4` then apply and run this change: https://gist.github.com/Tblue/62ff47bef7f894e92ed5?permalink...

And it did not work. I hit a brick wall. I completely lost trust in Firefox. I want a browser created by a non-profit. Thank you Google for corrupting everything you touch.

I then found this blessed soul: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/ffu/searchjson.html

And here are the ones not built-in:

https://metager.org/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe={searchTerms}

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&se...

https://www.mojeek.com/search?q={searchTerms}

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search

https://pypi.org/search/?q={searchTerms}

https://www.qwant.com/?q={searchTerms}&client=opensearch

https://searx.xyz/

https://swisscows.com/opensearch.xml

https://yandex.com/search/?text={searchTerms}&from=os&clid=1...

https://whoogle.sdf.org/search

https://lazyweb.ai/nav/

https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&format...

https://github.com/search?q={searchTerms}&ref=opensearch

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term={searchTerms}

http://alternativeto.net/browse/search/?q={searchTerms}

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query={searchTerms}&ref=...

https://kagi.com/search?q={searchTerms}

https://you.com/search?q={searchTerms}

https://millionshort.com/search?keywords={searchTerms}&remov...

https://search.f-droid.org/?q={searchTerms}&opensearch=1

https://www.gnod.com/search/

http://teclis.com:1333/?topics={searchTerms}

https://wiby.me/?q={searchTerms}

https://www.alexandria.org/?q={searchTerms}

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Re:Alexandria Search by Seirdy on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:53PM (#30729194)

Some of these (Andi, nee Lazyweb; You; SwissCows) are Bing proxies. Gnod is a search launcher, not an engine unto itself.

Many more installable engines are available at https://mycroftproject.com as OpenSearch XML plugins, compatible with Firefox and discoverable by Chromium.

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Re:Alexandria Search by danuker on Sunday March 20, 2022 @11:26AM (#30743385)

Thanks! I will remove duplicates.

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