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Looking for alternative script to search site
4wd:
NOTE: This was all written on a tablet, tables would have looked better but editing on a tablet is painful to say the least. (It actually looks better in Preview than Posted.)
So basically, if Presearch is selected, then this is the part i would use
%22http://engine.presearch.org/search?q=%22+q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)
to replace Google's?-dantheman (March 30, 2021, 02:04 PM)
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Not even that much, google.com -> engine.presearch.org, everything else is the same.
Don't look at the JavaScript, look at example search URLs from the search engines themselves:
--- ---https:// www.google.com /search?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com (Google - original)
https:// engine.presearch.org /search?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com (Presearch)
--- ---https:// www.google.com/search ?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com (Google - original)
https:// qwant.com/ ?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com (Qwant)
https:// duckduckgo.com/ ?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com (DDG)
https:// startpage.com/sp/search ?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com (Startpage)
The second section in each case is the minimum that needs changing.
All other sections of test searches on the engines are identical.
NOTES:
* I removed unnecessary crap from the example URLs, eg. setting strings, tracking, etc, so all are the minimum that are required for them to work.
* www.google.com is google.com in the bookmarklet.
Did use 4wd's last script and it isn't responding.
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I tested all four of the ones I changed and they all worked for me. The Presearch version in the last post was a copy/paste of the previous, which was copy/paste out of my browser, (Opera).
dantheman:
@4wd - thanks again, you have been more than patient!!
First try was with Vivaldi (still doesn't work after third verification).
Just tested with Firefox and your script works just fine there. :)
Wonder why initial Google script works with Vivaldi but not yours? :huh:
4wd:
First try was with Vivaldi (still doesn't work after third verification).-dantheman (March 30, 2021, 06:30 PM)
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Just tried the Presearch one above in Vivaldi, (Vivaldi 2.9.1699.4 (Official Build) (64-bit)), and it worked OK - had to double-click the bookmarklet.
dantheman:
2.9.2218.49 here.
The odd thing is.
Tried on Brave browser with both Google and Presearch and neither worked.
Then went over to M$ Edge and both went well. :(
Btw, both Brave and M$ Edge already have a functioning version of the "Google" script.
I'm just stymied about this incoherence.
dantheman:
Think i might start studying DuckDuckGo's ways of searching as it is a cross-browser option.
Ghacks just tickled my curiosity:
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/15/how-to-use-duckduckgo-instead-of-google-and-other-sites-to-get-faster-and-precise-results/
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