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SearchEdit - search.ini Editor for Opera

By Alexsalexs. Wednesday, April 9, 2008 7:44:15 PM

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SearchEdit is a Java-based editor for Opera's search.ini. It allows moving, editing and deleting existing search entries from the search.ini as well as adding/removing separators.
SearchEdit works with search.ini from Opera 9 and higher.
For more information read the tutorial or go to the Forum.

Version 0.4.1

(en, de, fr, lu)
Online readme
Online video

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The History of Search

By Bausch PatrickPhilo007. Saturday, December 18, 2010 2:06:37 PM

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This list of modifications is not complete, but we will try to keep it updated.

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Multi Search 2: From POST to GET - a step by step guide

By Bausch PatrickPhilo007. Tuesday, October 12, 2010 5:48:41 PM

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Sometimes search engines cannot be used for “Multi Search” because they are POST searches. But a lot of them can be changed to GET-Searches so that you can use them for Multi-Search.

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Complete control of the search order

By Bausch PatrickPhilo007. Friday, September 24, 2010 7:16:00 PM

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Editing with SearchEdit both search.ini files is not really the best way of managing the order of your search engines because the standard search engines are always shown on the top.
Dude09 wrote a step-by-step guide how to put with SearchEdit's merge-function all engines in one search.ini in your program folder to eliminate this limitation.
However this method has a few disadvantages and I personally believe there is a better way to handle this problem:

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SearchEdit 0.4.1 released

By Bausch PatrickPhilo007. Friday, August 6, 2010 5:53:37 PM

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Finally SearchEdit is ready for the latest Opera builds

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Search Suggestion 2

By Bausch PatrickPhilo007. Sunday, July 4, 2010 7:41:22 PM

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Search suggestion works out of the box for Yandex, Wikipedia, Bing and Baidu.

With a little tweaking you can also add search suggestion to other searches.
You need only to add 2 lines to your searches.

Some examples:

- google suggest english hl=en
download:google.com.se

Suggest Protocol=JSON
Suggest URL=http://www.google.com/complete/search?output=opera&q={SearchTerm}&hl=en

- google suggest german hl=de
download: google.de.se

Suggest Protocol=JSON
Suggest URL=http://www.google.com/complete/search?output=opera&q={SearchTerm}&hl=de

- youtube ds=yt
download: youtube.se

Suggest Protocol=JSON
Suggest URL=http://www.google.com/complete/search?output=opera&q={SearchTerm}&ds=yt&hl=en

Update 1:
removed the firefox mask in urls, thanks Alexander for this hint.

Update 2:
added se-files: can be imported with SearchEdit

Update 3:
added Baidu in the list of standard suggestion searches

Update 4:
Opera build 1085 has now officially google suggest search:

Suggest Protocol=JSON
Suggest URL=http://clients1.google.com/complete/search?json=t&q={SearchTerm}&client=opera

Update 5:
fixed suggest url for Youtube.com

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Search suggestions

By Bausch PatrickPhilo007. Sunday, June 13, 2010 6:39:18 AM

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With the snapshot build (windows 3413, linux 6355) Opera introduces "search suggestions" a long time wish on many wish-lists

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/06/12/saturday-snapshot?startidx=100#comments

We've also added the ability to show suggestions in the search field. You can try it with Wikipedia and Yandex for now.

If search suggestions does not work for you, you are probably not using the standard searches:

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/12576262?startidx=100#comment31101612

The suggestions are (currently) linked to the unique id of the search engine included with Opera.

If you like to use your "old" search.ini you have to change the uniqeIDs

Wikipedia: AE41FF7A5FC011DDAE47DBEF55D89593
Yandex: FEAF2EF45FCC11DD8287529456D89593

Update:
The suggestions are not linked to the UniqueId anymore.
You have to add Suggest Protocol and Suggest URL to your search.ini

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Search.ini explained

By Bausch PatrickPhilo007. Monday, October 19, 2009 7:30:08 AM

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Unfortunately the article Manually Editing Opera Searches using search.ini is out of date and there have been taken no efforts to make a necessary update. I did a lot of copy&paste – there is no use to re-invent the wheel – but I had to do also a lot of changes and added all the new stuff from Opera 8, 9 & 10.

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Multi Search - Simultaneous Searches

By Bausch PatrickPhilo007. Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:22:37 PM

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With SearchEdit 0.4 we introduced a new feature: “Multi Search”.
Many users might not exactly know how to use “Multi Search” so we have decided to give a few more explications and examples:

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