Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Mozilla Firefox

There is unfortunately no simple way to have a custom Google search with operators in the search bar in Firefox. The popular Add to Search Bar add-on, while easy, cannot be used to add in custom searches with operators, and it’s the operator you need in order to make this work.

Instead what you have to do is use a bookmark activated by a keyword.

There are a ton of different ways to do bookmarks in Firefox, but this is the simplest way to describe how it’s done:

1. Add a bookmark in Firefox and edit it.
2. Input "Location" as http://www.google.com/search?q=%s%20-wikipedia
3. Input "Keyword" as nw for "No Wikipedia".

When you want to search Google without Wikipedia results, enter "nw [search term here]" in your Firefox address bar. For example, if I wanted to search Google for computer without Wikipedia results, I would type nw computer in the address bar and press Enter.contact hifatty92@gmail.com

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