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As I am getting more and more worked into Opera's awesome abilities, I see myself with some that I almost cannot live without. Whenever I have to use another browser, I keep typing the custom Opera searches into Firefox or Chrome or whatever's address bar. I thought I'd share some of mine with you.

How to?
Go to Tools -> Preferences (Ctrl + F12), go to the Search tab.


By clicking Add.. you will be able to add a new search.


Here you write in the address of what you search for, and the search word should be expressed by %s. By using the example shown above, you will be able to simply type, for instance, myo Amnith in your address bar, and easily come to my blog here at My Opera.

There's a simpler way of adding searches. Say that I want to add a quick search to my blog. I can then right click the box where I type the word I want to search for and click Create Search...


In the popup I write what short cut I want to use, click OK, and voilá -- I can just type amn Star Trek to search my blog for Star Trek.


Searches
I will type the name of the search, the abbreviation and then the line that does the magic so that I or others can easily copy-paste it to get it working. These should be entered in the input boxes of the same name in the add custom search boxes above. Lastly I'll add some comments where it's needed.

General use
Searches that will benefit the regular user
Name: &Google
Keyword: g
Address: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Comments: This one is added in Opera, but I wanted to give a headsup so that you can easily see how things are done. In addition, I use this about 200 times a day, so it justifies it in this list.

Name: The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Keyword: m
Address: http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%s&x=0&y=0

Name: My Opera
Keyword: my
Address: http://my.opera.com/%s
Comments: Thanks Espen<3

Name: Wikipedia
Keyword: wi
Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

Name: Wiktionary
Keyword: wt
Address: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

Name: YouTube
Keyword: y
Address: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s&search_type=&aq=f

Name: Ultimate-Guitar
Keyword: u
Address: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?s=%s&w=songs
Comments: Change to &w=bands to get a band search, but I mostly do song search.

World of Warcraft
Name: The World of Warcraft Armory
Keyword: a
Address: http://eu.wowarmory.com/search.xml?searchQuery=%s&searchType=all

Name: Dragonblight Armory
Keyword: db
Address: http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dragonblight&n=%s
Comments: Change eu to www if you're using the US armory, or to the respective language if you use another armory. Also, change Dragonblight to whatever realm you are playing on.

Name: Dragonblight Talents
Keyword: dbt
Address: http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Dragonblight&n=%s

Name: Wowhead
Keyword: w
Address: http://www.wowhead.com/?search=%s

Name: WoWWiki
Keyword: ww
Address: http://www.wowwiki.com/Special:Search?search=%s&go=1

Name: WoWInterface
Keyword: wowi
Address: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/search.php
Query string: search=%s&title=
Comments: Check for Use POST.

Name: Curse.com - WoW Addons
Keyword: c
Address: http://wow.curse.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=%s

Finally
That should be about it. If any of these don't work, feel free to poke me about it. Also, if you have any ingenious custom searches, feel free to send them to me. :-)