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Google search suggestions in Opera

Monday, July 12, 2010 7:36:53 PM

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Opera 10.60 supports search suggestions and currently it is enabled for Bing and Wikipedia. You can enable for Google by following the steps below.

Google search suggestions
Google search suggestions

  1. Open search.ini file from profile directory in any text editor.
    If there is no search.ini file inside profile directory, delete Google search and create new Google search.
    1. CTRL+F12 > Search
    2. [Select] Google > Edit... > Details >> > Copy address > Cancel
    3. [Select] Google > Delete > Yes
    4. Add... > Enter name, keyword, paste address and enable 'use as default search engine' > OK
  2. At the end of Google search engine add the following code and save. 
    Suggest Protocol=JSON
Suggest URL=http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?json&q={SearchTerm}
    After adding the code, it should look like the following. 
    [Search Engine X]
UNIQUEID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Name=Google
Verbtext=0
URL=http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Query=
Key=g
Is post=0
UseTLD=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=iso-8859-15
Search Type=0
Position=-1
Nameid=0
Deleted=0
Suggest Protocol=JSON
Suggest URL=http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?json&q={SearchTerm}
  3. Restart Opera.

Opera will show only 3 search suggestions and there is no way to increase it.

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Comments

Charles SchlossChas4 Monday, July 12, 2010 7:42:54 PM

cool

Pallab DeIndyan Monday, July 12, 2010 7:44:52 PM

Awesome tip. Thanks.

Anonymous Monday, July 12, 2010 7:58:31 PM

mihau writes: is the Firefox mask necessary to make it work?

Tamil Monday, July 12, 2010 8:05:28 PM

is the Firefox mask necessary to make it work?

Anonymous Monday, July 12, 2010 8:06:47 PM

Anonymous writes: It's not working here. I wonder what I did wrong.

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Monday, July 12, 2010 8:13:33 PM

yes

Gislaindjeeman Monday, July 12, 2010 8:14:45 PM

Seems not working with 10.70 confused

Tamil Monday, July 12, 2010 8:20:23 PM

It's not working here. I wonder what I did wrong.

Originally posted by djeeman:

Seems not working with 10.70

Rename your search.ini to search.ini.bak and follow note in post.

Gislaindjeeman Monday, July 12, 2010 8:24:29 PM

Thanks Tamil !! bigsmile

hundredorzero Monday, July 12, 2010 8:42:53 PM

thanks man.

walterbugscout Monday, July 12, 2010 8:47:31 PM

pirate

Angelikiellinidata Monday, July 12, 2010 9:52:43 PM

nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks! banana

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Monday, July 12, 2010 10:29:40 PM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
It gives money to Mozilla each time you use this search Tamil!!!! yuck faint

HPearcehpearce Monday, July 12, 2010 10:34:11 PM

If I delete the google search that comes with Opera, won't it just be replaced the next time I update ?

lamarca lamarca Monday, July 12, 2010 11:04:07 PM

banana banana

Abhinavdecodedthought Monday, July 12, 2010 11:33:51 PM

up
banana
just the thing I wanted smile
strange but it isn't working
and another you forgot to mention that you need close opera before you edit the search.ini file

Abdulaziz Noratabdulaziznorat Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:28:42 AM

GOOD MORNING coffee yes cheers smile

Tamil Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:55:12 AM

@ellinidata:

Originally posted by hpearce:

If I delete the google search that comes with Opera, won't it just be replaced the next time I update ?

Nope, modifications will be saved in search.ini inside profile directory and only default search.ini will be updated.

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

It gives money to Mozilla each time you use this search Tamil!!!!

cry

Originally posted by decodedthought:

strange but it isn't working

See this.

Originally posted by decodedthought:

you forgot to mention that you need close opera before you edit the search.ini file

No need to close Opera. wink

@abdulaziznorat: Good Morning. coffee

Abdulaziz Noratabdulaziznorat Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:20:02 AM

cheers

Jakub Martonkubm Tuesday, July 13, 2010 6:02:18 AM

thanks tamil cheers

Igor ReverserRReverser Tuesday, July 13, 2010 9:39:32 AM

There are more URL's for another search engines:
http://my.opera.com/RReverser/blog/2010/07/07/suggest-url-s-for-some-search-engines

Anonymous Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:00:27 AM

EA writes: Igor Reverser: How can you claim that this is a copy of your post? It doesn't even use the same url. Also this is a guide, your site just has URLs with no instructions on how to use them.

Igor ReverserRReverser Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:03:15 AM

Really, I deleted instructions. Sorry. Changed post.

Stoen Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:56:07 AM

If you are concerned with the FF reference in the url, try replacing 
output=firefox
with 
json

Tamil Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:19:28 PM

@Stoen: Thanks. cheers

youngjr Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:08:19 PM

Thank you. Very informative post. It can be adopted for Korean search engine "Naver" (http://www.naver.com)

Suggest Protocol=JSON
Suggest URL=http://ac.search.naver.com/autocompl?m=s&ie=utf-8&q={SearchTerm}

Abdulaziz Noratabdulaziznorat Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:01:30 PM

smile

Baltrex17 Wednesday, July 14, 2010 4:54:05 AM

yes Is little mod will help until opera does it.
but the bad thing you have to mask as firefox awww

Tamil Wednesday, July 14, 2010 5:11:49 AM

Originally posted by Baltrex17:

the bad thing you have to mask as firefox

Nope. See this.

Baltrex17 Wednesday, July 14, 2010 5:37:52 AM

Thanks You Updated I didn't Notice bigsmile
(Better pay more attention to the article next time before I post)

Tamil Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:16:14 AM

Abdulaziz Noratabdulaziznorat Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:33:12 AM

I do not follow your search suggestions, not technically sound! Thanks for your guide line.

Tamil Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:38:07 AM

YongShunyongshun Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:36:10 PM

Gotta give money to firefox in that case???? sad

Abdulaziz Noratabdulaziznorat Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:37:27 PM

Enjoy the wonderful evening !

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:44:54 PM

Originally posted by yongshun:

Gotta give money to firefox in that case????

Nope, the code was updated with opera string.
But I'm waiting for the official update to come...

Charles SchlossChas4 Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:06:51 AM

Would a temp fix work with custom searches?

Tamil Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:33:26 AM

Originally posted by Chas4:

Would a temp fix work with custom searches?

yes

Charles SchlossChas4 Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:08:42 AM

Can it be made fro the right click create custom search?

Tamil Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:32:18 AM

Nope. sad

Charles SchlossChas4 Thursday, July 15, 2010 4:04:48 AM

sad

Arun Kumarmarunkmr Friday, July 16, 2010 11:13:46 AM

yes

YongShunyongshun Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:12:44 AM

Weird it just can't seemed to work for me.

[Search Engine 1]
UNIQUEID=7A8CADE6677811DDBA4B5E9D55D89593
Name=Google
Verbtext=0
URL=http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Suggest Protocol=JSON
Suggest URL=http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?joutput=firefox&q={SearchTerm}
Query=
Key=g
Is post=0
UseTLD=0
Has endseparator=0
Search Type=0
Position=-1
Nameid=0
Deleted=0

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:36:25 AM

Originally posted by yongshun:

Weird it just can't seemed to work for me.

Update it to the new code!

[Search Engine X]
UNIQUEID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Name=Google
Verbtext=0
URL=http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Query=
Key=g
Is post=0
UseTLD=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=iso-8859-15
Search Type=0
Position=-1
Nameid=0
Deleted=0
Suggest Protocol=JSON
Suggest URL=http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?json&q={SearchTerm}


Or wait for the official release as me...

Robin ZalekBtEO Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:46:51 AM

Trying to find the suggestion URL for an arbitrary site?

See if Mozilla Addons has an example.
Just click "download anyway" when you get the prompt telling you that you need Firefox to load the addon, and you'll get a simple XML page with the URL free to copy and paste into your search.ini. Just remember to change {SearchTerms} into {SearchTerm}.

Pallab DeIndyan Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:25:43 PM

Originally posted by Robin Zalek:

Trying to find the suggestion URL for an arbitrary site?

See if Mozilla Addons has an example.


Nice tip!

hundredorzero Monday, July 19, 2010 1:10:33 AM

what's the suggest URL of youtube?

Tamil Monday, July 19, 2010 1:20:05 AM

Originally posted by BtEO:

See if Mozilla Addons has an example.

up

Originally posted by hundredorzero:

what's the suggest URL of youtube?

Use the URL posted in post.

hundredorzero Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:28:43 PM

Originally posted by Tamil:

Use the URL posted in post.


ok thanks. but one question.
how and where to find "suggest url" of other custom searches. For example download.com, google images, beemp3.com etc

Tamil Thursday, July 22, 2010 2:18:59 PM

See this.

You can URL posted in post for all Google services.

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