List of keyword searches

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