Wikipedia Quick Search

[ryanstein]

We all know about Firefox's Quick Searches, right? Well if you use Wikipedia/Wikidictionary as much as I do, why don't you combine the best of both worlds? Just follow these 2 easy steps.

Step 1: Creating the bookmark

Click: Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks

Collapse: Quick Searches folder

Click: New Bookmark

Your bookmark should appear in the Quick Searches folder.

Fill it out as so:

You can name the keyword whatever you want.

For the sanity of everyone following this guide, here is the very long search term:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Search&search=%s

Step 2: Usage

After this is done, enter:

wiki neowin

to be taken to the Wikipedia Neowin page.

If your term does not have a page listed, you will be taken to a search page with the results listed.

You can also do this with any site with a search box.

For Wiktionary:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Search?search=%s&go=Go

For Dictionary.com:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s

For IMDB.org

http://imdb.com/Find?for=%s&select=All

Edited August 16, 2005 by ryanstein

[Menge]

wow this is AWESOME :D

i just added quick google, wikipedia and dictionary access!

might be adding some forum keywords too, like Neowin :D amazon searches and all

this is awesome :) thanks!

[Joseph Zollo]

Firefox already has wikipedia built in! Just type...

wp neowin

Into the address bar, obviously you can replace neowin with any search query.

[Menge]

Firefox already has wikipedia built in! Just type...

wp neowin

Into the address bar, obviously you can replace neowin with any search query.

586383079[/snapback]

doesn't work here :s

[SpeakNoSparky]

Nope, kids...

"wp Paris Hilton" pulls up Washington Post

"wiki Paris Hilton" pulls up Wikipedia

there you go!

[demondave]

I have mine set as,

Wikipedia: "w [search Term]"

Google: "g [search Term]"

Bungie.net: "b [Gamertag]"

I use them all the time, especially the google one, which allowed me to put forecast fox in the google search bars place.

[Joseph Zollo]

What versions of firefox are you guys using? I'm on 1.0.6 and it works fine. My iMac has 1.0.3 and it works good there!

[ryanstein]

wp neowin

586383079[/snapback]

It doesn't work for me. Are you using a trunk version?

[Joseph Zollo]

It doesn't work for me.  Are you using a trunk version?

586383325[/snapback]

1.0.6 official build from the site!

[ryanstein]

Version 1.1!

I just added the quick search for IMDB.org

[ryanstein]

As per version number. I am also using 1.0.6. That's weird. The versions should be the same. What platform/OS are you using?

[Lucida]

thanks, very useful

[Orange]

Nice one.

[snail22]

great one... thanks.

[it_waaznt_me]

Hmm.. Its possible in Maxthon too .. This thread will give you excellent tips on that .. :)

[Borbus]

Thanks this is brilliant. I have a wikipedia quicksearch plugin also but I did not like it since it explicitly searched rather than went to the page if it existed. But this works perfectly, thanks. Another reason to use firefox :D

By the way, these ones are built into Firefox 1.5b1:

google <search term> - for google, obviously

goto <search term> - i'm feeling lucky (it seems firefox does this anyway if you type something random into the address bar)

dict <search term> - dictionary.com

quot <symbol> - google stock quotes

[insanekiwi]

hey this is cool. thanks for the guide (Y)

[justin89h]

wp neowin

The wp wikipedia search thingo, is part of an wikipedia 'Quick Search' you can install from the offical mozilla website. Can't find it at the moment, but it's what I did, and I can use the same keyword.

Internet Explorer needs to build in something like this. :( Would almost make me start using it again.

Edited September 21, 2005 by kerodeon

[Viserov]

Another option (which I use) is to add A9 as a search engine and have A9 search Wikipedia.

[em_te]

Cool tip! (Y)

And I got it to work on IE too!

[Orange]

Nice one.

Made it for wiki only :D

[futb0l]

Tip:

You can also go to the search box, like actually go to the Wikipedia site, and press Right Click, then press 'Add a keyword for this Search'. And then type in the keyword :) Of course, this works for other sites as well, so you don't really need to know the URL needed for the search, firefox will get it for you!

My favourite though is: http://www.yubnub.org/

They have a command for every site/search engine there is, so all I do is go there, add a keyword for search, say 's', then to search in google i just type in 's gg query' in the address bar, or say google images 's gi query' :D

[winfx]

I personally use javascript prompts for my searches, dunno if anyone will want them but here's how I do it.

1. Go to Manage Bookmarks and choose where you want to create a new bookmark (I usually create the pop-up box searches in a 'Searches' folder in my Bookmarks Toolbar for easy access)

2. Enter a title, for example Wikipedia Search

3. In the location field, enter:

javascript:var query = prompt('Enter query:', ''); if(query != '' && query != null) { window.location.href = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/' + query }

4. Enter a keyword (optional)

5. Save

Now all you have to do is click the bookmark and you'll be presented with a prompt, asking you to input your query. I'm not sure how time-conserving it is, but it is cool.

Here's also the code I use for Dictionary.com and IMDb:

Dictionary.com

javascript:var query = prompt('Enter word:', ''); if(query != '' && query != null) { window.location.href = 'http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=' + query; }

IMDb

javascript:var query = prompt('Enter query:', ''); if(query != '' && query != null) { window.location.href = 'http://imdb.com/find?q=' + query; }

[Borbus]

For a neowin quick search, enter these values:

Name: Neowin

Location: http://www.google.com/custom?domains=Neowi...arch=Neowin.net (Right click, copy link location)

Keyword: whatever you want, I suggest neowin

Then when you type "neowin <search term>" you will be using the new neowin google search :)

[brand]

when i wiki poo it redirects me to **** :(