List of keyword searches

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This article applies to Firefox and Mozilla Suite.

Below is a list of various keyword searches for Mozilla Suite and Firefox. The keywords shown are only a suggestion and you can change them to fit your preferences. The keywords are case-insensitive. To use a keyword, type the keyword followed by the search terms in the Location Bar. For more information refer to Using keyword searches.

For keyword searches not listed below, the Mozilla extension NeedleSearch allows you to discover the requied URI parameters, not only for searches, but for many other types of forms based interfaces.

Search engines

Name Location/URL Keyword
AlltheWeb http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=%s atw
AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=%s av
dmoz.org http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=%s dmoz
Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web/%s dp
Google http://www.google.com/search?q=%s g
Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky go
Google Images http://images.google.com/images?&q=%s gi
Google News http://news.google.com/news?q=%s gn
Looksmart http://search.looksmart.com/p/search?qt=%s ls
Lycos http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?query=%s lycos
Netscape http://search.netscape.com/ns/search?query=%s netscape
Yahoo! http://search.yahoo.com/search?&p=%s yahoo
Teoma http://s.teoma.com/search?q=%s teoma

References

Name Location/URL Keyword
Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s dict
Dict.org http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Strategy=*&Database=*&Query=%s dict
HyperDictionary.com http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/%s dict
Thesaurus.com http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=%s thes
Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s w
Acronym Finder http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=%s&Find=Find ac
The Acronym Archive http://taa.pileofcrap.org/acronym/%s/ acro

Other

Name Location/URL Keyword
Bugzilla http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=%s bug
Google Translator http://translate.google.com/translate?u=%s trans
Internet Movie Database http://us.imdb.com/find?q=%s movie
RFCs ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc%s.txt rfc
Rottentomatoes.com http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/full_search.php?search=%s rot
SourceForge Project Home Page http://%s.sourceforge.net/ sf
W3C Validator http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=%s w3c
W3Schools HTML tag reference http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_%s.asp html
PHP Function Ref http://www.php.net/search.php?lang=en&pattern=%s&show=quickref php?

O'Reilly

Name Location/URL Keyword
O'Reilly.com
O'Reilly Network
http://catsearch.atomz.com/search/catsearch/?sp-q=%s&sp-t=cat_search&sp-a=sp1000a5a9 you can name
the keywords
to whatever
you want
Books http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=%s&sp-t=cat_search&sp-a=sp1000a5a9&sp-k=Books
Articles http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=%s&sp-t=cat_search&sp-a=sp1000a5a9&sp-k=Articles
Blogs http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=%s&sp-t=cat_search&sp-a=sp1000a5a9&sp-k=Weblogs