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: ''These keyword searches will work on both Mozilla and Firefox.''
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]].
 
The '''Keywords''' shown are only a suggestion and you can change them to fit your preferences. The keywords are case-insensitive. Remember: To use a keyword, type the keyword followed by a phrase or a word. The phrase or the word will replace the "%s" in the URL and that site will be accessed. Passing [[Multiple parameter keyword searches | multiple parameters]] is also possible but much more difficult.


==Search engines==
==Search engines==

Revision as of 03:26, 26 February 2005

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.

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

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?