SearchEdit - The History of Search

The History of Search

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

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

Opera 5.00 – Dec. 06, 2000
– Search field on toolbar

Opera 5.10 – Apr. 10, 2001
– Integrated search

Opera 5.12
– “Opera support” knowledge base added to the search box
– Changed to the new Tucows domain search
– Renamed “Prices” to “Shopping”

Opera 6.02
– “Super search”, “Amazon”, “Ebay”, and “Find in page” are now default searches on the Personal bar

Opera 6.×× versions
Maybe more detailed information about this versions?

http://www.schrode.net/opera/search/search_ini.html
http://www.schrode.net/opera/search/search.ini
http://www.schrode.net/opera/search/buttons.ini

This setting also affects the little search buttons on the personal bar. Search Type=X uses the icon of the SearchX entry in buttons.ini.

You can use up to 16 different icons (Search00 to Search15) and you can reuse icons, for example, Search Type=0 works fine for all customized searches

This setting also affects the little search buttons on the personal bar. Search Type=X uses the icon of the SearchX entry in buttons.ini.

Beta versions of Opera 7
– Opera added three new keys: Position, Verbtext and NameID.

Opera 7.20 beta ××
– Google search suggestion added

Opera 7.20 beta 10
– Google search suggestion removed

Opera 7.54
– Super Search removed? 3. September 2004, (worked fine with 7.5 Preview 3)

Opera 8.01 – Jun. 16, 2005 – Changelog
– Added search suggestion using the default search engine at the end of the address field auto-complete dropdown.

Opera 9.0 beta 1 – April 20, 2006 – Press Release
– “create search” added

Opera 9.10
– find in page modified (almost 9.10 RC1)

Opera 9.20
– speed dial search added (28. February 2007, builds: Windows 8732, Linux 577)
– Support for downloading search engine icons on first start and upgrade (22. March 2007, builds: Windows 8758, Linux 615)
– Added support for automatic search from address bar when entering more than one word (30. March 2007, builds: Windows 8767, Linux 628)
– custom searches have now their own search.ini

Opera 9.50
– Changed default Speed dial search engine from Yahoo to Ask (6. June 2008, builds: Windows 10051, Linux 2025)

Opera 10.00?
– localised search.ini
– added TLD, Windows 1456

Opera 10.50
– Separator disabled for search dropdown box (bug: DSK-281840)
– search field history added

Opera 10.60
– added searchs to Opera Link (first 9.60 Snapshot, 22. August 2008 Windows 10408, Linux 2405)
– added UniqueID
– [Options] added (speedial & standard search) Linux build 6382
– search suggest added for Wikipdia & Yandex (build: Windows 3413, Linux 6355), later for Bing (Suggest Protocol, Suggest URL)

Opera 11.00
(build 1085 – 15. November 2010)
– added Google suggest
– added Bing Trackingcode (removed in build 1104 – 20. November 2010)