What is Reddit's opinion of Mycroft Project?

From 3.5 billion Reddit comments

Use verbatim mode.

Press the search tools button, then click on "All results" and select verbatim on the drop-down menu.

I found out about this mode months ago and my google-life is great now, it's like old times, no more Google changing what I type.

You can also add it to the search engine list in Firefox: http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=google+verbatim - Click on "google verbatim" under "Major engines"

You can do this on Firefox, perhaps even better. You can use bookmarklets to do it, you can use Mycroft, official search engines, or you can use this addon to add your own custom search engines.

Don't readily have a more simple option (unsure if there is one), go here, click the one you want and install it. Now go to Preferences > Search and it should show up in the list of engines you can set as your default.

Yes! It's under Search tools. Click "all results" and select "verbatim mode"

It behaves like old Google. It still does cool things like working as a calculator but it doesn't hold your hand as much as default google, changing your search terms and things like that.

If you like it, you can add it to the search engine list on firefox: http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=google+verbatim (click the second item on the list, "Google Verbatim (google.com)"

Why don't you go here and take your pick? Plenty to choose from.

You can then change the setting in FF if you choose to make it your default

Some time back, Firefox started compressing the OpenSearch plugins into the search.json.mozlz4 file to reduce tampering by bad actors. Of course, it also prevents us from changing the search plugins ourselves.

I have a decompressor for that file here: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/searchjson.html

I think if you are conversant with the format of OpenSearch plugins, a page like the following offers the most flexibility for tweaking, but it's a little inconvenient that they have so many fields...

http://mycroftproject.com/submitos.html

You could create your own search plugin with the Mycroft Project submission utility, set your personalized search URL, and then install it. Be sure to tick the Show full instructions? checkbox if you do this, to get useful explanations about the fields.

In addition to all the other stuff, if you have trouble finding or setting up search for a particular site chances are it's on the Mycroft Project.

Also for a quick search that gives the search engine "<term> site:<current_site>" here's a bookmarklet I use pretty much daily (originally from here, modified from google search to ddg).

The thing about Australian English is that the Macquarie Dictionary has consistently accurate entries. Not just for words that have a particularly Australian meaning but for words with meanings shared by most English speakers around the world. In short, the Macquarie Dictionary lexicography is bonzer.

However, the digital offerings by the Macquarie Dictionary are shit. I even offered to develop an Android App to get help sort that problem out, but discussions ... did not progress.

Even if the digital offerings where good. That is, that the various ways at getting at the dictionary content (web, mobile app, kindle dictionary, etc.) was done right then there is still the issue of paying for this stuff. I'd happily fork over big bucks to get the good digital products but a 10 year old from a poor family has a barrier there.

Even when the 10 year old learns that they can get a free National Library of Australia Card that gives them free access to the Macquarie Dictionary website the login impediments will probably make the child tend to do what I do when in the browser. Namely use a search plug-in for the free:

• The Oxford English Dictionary; and
• The Merriam Webster Dictionary.

When reading their kindle they'll use the supplied Oxford English Dictionary.

Thereby the Australian English Lexicon becomes less consulted and falls into disuse.

The solution here would be for the government to buy out the private company that owns Australian English and return it to the University which bears its name. This is one of the things that ought be state owned and we shouldn't mind the unit that providing free access to Australian English will be therefore running at a loss.

http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=qwant if you wish.

Firefox to reintroduce OpenSearch discovery and installs in Firefox 61

https://weboas.is/ is a webpage that has search functionality built-in to that page, and is not an XML-based Search Engine.

Currently Firefox needs Search Engine that are installable from the web due to changes made to the manner in which Firefox uses the XML-based search engines, which are converted inside Firefox into a mozLz4 based file which is what Firefox uses now for the installed Search Engines.

As another responder has mentioned already, the situation will be changed come Firefox 61 - https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-reintroduces-opensearch

For now I am using http://mycroftproject.com/ to create and install custom Search Engines to suit my needs, and then installing the new Search Engine from the Mycroft website. Said website was a MozDev project from the mid-00's and was spun-off to its own domain like 5 years ago/

Hosting of Mycroft is courtesy of Oregon State University.

Currently it is difficult to add a search plugin without pulling it from a URL for an Open Search XML file. There are configurators online -- for example, http://mycroftproject.com/submitos.html -- or you can post it on the Add-ons site, but I don't know if there is a way to simply paste your own XML somewhere and have Firefox add it.

Cool. Trying it out. To get things into the Search Bar, Mycroft Project: Search Engine Plugins - Firefox IE Chrome is the easiest it seems. I've been using Selection Context Search – Add-ons for Firefox

I recently made a couple Search Plugins at Mycroft Project and they work fine in 57 to add them to the search bar. So, yeah, you can make one that way as well. The two I made are here: http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=eq2

You will need to add a new search engine and then set it as default.

There are some ready-made engine plugins available at Mycroft. Note that only 'OpenSearch' engines are supported; 'Sherlock' engines are no longer supported.

If you don't find what you are looking for at Mycroft, you can create your own search engine plugin at this website and upon creation, you can directly click a button to install it into Firefox.

Check out mycroft project. You can create your own search provider for your browser. After the {searchTerms} section you could add -facebook for your desired results.

You could just add a Google Image search plugin to your search bar.

Mycroft Project - Google Images

There are different Google Image search plugins there that offer different languages and features such as (Large, Show Sizes) and (Large, No Filtering)

Just click on one (or more) "Google Images" to add it to Firefox.

Ah sorry then. I thought you were talking about the address bar search. Searching via the address bar will be more responsive.

If you want google.ca specifically then installing a search plugin would give you the .ca site in the address bar. http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=google.ca

Install the Google search plugin that suites your tastes.

http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=google+search

BTW, the default search engines are "locked", and if you manage to edit one or remove one of the "default" it will "be back" with the next Firefox update when the omni.ja file is replaced.

Any idea about Firefox? There doesn't seem to be an option to manually enter the custom search "www.reddit.com/r/%s" string.

Edit: Found a way to do it.

• 1) Go to http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=reddit

• 2) Install: "Reddit - subreddit (link)"

• 3) Go to Firefox Options > Search

• 4) Under "One-click search engines" you should see "Reddit - subreddit"

• 5) Double click under "keyword", press "r", press "enter"

Now, in your address bar, typing "r xyzsubreddit" and pressing "enter" will direct you to reddit.com/r/xyzsubreddit.

I'm running Firefox 46.0.1 by the way.

What you are asking for kind of already exists and you don't need to install any plugins. The Mycroft Project lets users submit search engines to any site. I made one just now for your site, staznaci, here: http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=staznaci.com. Just single click the link to install. Then, you can go to the search bar and type "staznaci <word>" and it should search for it.

Check out the Mycroft project:
http://mycroftproject.com/
In Firefox mobile you can long press a search box to add to your search engines list. Also, in desktop Firefox I believe you can right click on a search box and choose to set up a keyword for it. I currently have Duck Duck Go as my main search engine and use the bangs for searching most other sites.

PS: What's wrong with the search box in Firefox, rather than the address bar? I find if your DNS provider utilises DNS hijacking then single word searches will return a missing URL instead of a search results page.

Look up the Mycroft Project. Although it's not Exactly like Chrome where you can tab complete many sites, you can add the ones you use most. After you add a couple of sites, click on the blue G in the search bar or location bar and click "Manage Search Engines..." Edit the keywords to whatever you want (I added YouTube and my shortcut is 'yt'. Now, when I type something like: "yt ubuntu" in the search bar, it'll automatically search YouTube for "ubuntu"

This page will get you started with search keywords. I also like to mention the Mycroft Project, which has a bunch of preconfigured OpenSearch plugins for various sites.

You can create a custom search engine plugin with the additional parameter. This is a little difficult because Firefox doesn't have a built-in form. Instead, you can use the following page:

http://mycroftproject.com/submitos.html

Let's say you use Google and you never want the word burrito in your results. Your Search URL might look like this:

https://www.google.com/search?q={searchTerms}+-burrito

And your Suggestions URL like this:

https://www.google.com/complete/search?q={searchTerms}+-burrito

Well, you could use something like ContextSearch web-ext – Add-ons for Firefox to highlight the movie on IMDB then right-click and search for that movie using whatever site's search.

Can add Netflix searches here: http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=netflix

The custom search "Reddit - subreddit (link)" will do exactly what you want, including taking you to the reddit homepage if you don't specify a subreddit. Install it from http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=Reddit+link, then go to Options|Search|One-Click Search Engines and set its keyword to "r".

And another option that takes a bit more work is to setup your own aliases. You can search for available search plugins and then give them a keyword in about:preferences#search. For instance if I type w mozilla I go to the Wikipedia page of Mozilla because I set the "w" to be the keyword for the English Wikipedia. This way you don't need to rely on third party search providers like DDG - as long as the search addon that you choose is not itself a third-party provider.

Hmm, if you want suggestions from site A that are run on site B, I think you would need to create a hybrid search engine plugin. Each search engine plugin contains separate addresses for suggestions and search.

I created GoSuggestWikipedia as an experiment here:

http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=en.wikipedia.org

If it is your default search engine, you just have to click the suggestion.

If it is NOT your default search engine, it is not very convenient: you can arrow down the list to the suggestion you want to use and click the icon.

For future refrence, try [the mycroft project]. mycroft has lots more content and is user generated.

here is a link to the reddit plugins. i personally prefer the google one. adding any engine on firefox is a one-click process

Also you can use this site for a database of premade search engines, and this site to make and automaically install your own without having to fiddle with firefox profiles.

I haven't explored the method explained in that document you linked so this site may not provide as many options, but I've found it sufficient for all of my search needs.

> Geizhals

Easier to remember skinflint.co.uk in the UK though...

Also handy dandy link to Skinflint search engine plugin for Firefox: http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=skinflint.co.uk

Here's an addon that claims to make them.

I think you can use this page to generate one (without submitting it).

Oh, and here's another page that should do the same thing.

You can also use something like Ready2Search to quickly build your own search plugins, when the specific search is not available in Mycroft or you want some standard additions to your input (like "searchterm 720p age:24h"). Meanwhile using Context Search can save you from a lot of unnecessary copy-pasting.

For the first one:

You can get new 'custom' search definitions from the Mycroft Project. Here's a link to the page specifically for google.co.uk

Google UK (SSL) en-GB (google.co.uk) by Mycroft Project is probably a good choice. Left click on that. In the pop up check the box that says 'Make this the current search engine'. Click the Add button.

After you get the one(s) you need, you can switch search engines via left clicking the search icon in the address bar.

As someone else pointed out, I'm readily suspicious of this service.

Usually when you go to a site that is encouraging you to use them as a search service, they will add the (very easy) necessary bits that let's the browser add the search as a default. The magnifying glass in the search box will get a green plus sign, you can click and add it to your list. These guys seem to only want you to download and install something.

Anyway, you can use this Mycroft page to easily add it.

What forums. There's a public version called Mycroft, but I'm pretty sure the What version is more recent. You may also want to check out this thread for other options.

If you're on What, there's their private tracker metasearch, which is pretty good. No idea how it compares to the others, as it's the only one I've bothered setting up (I don't need it that often). I know at one point it was made into Mycroft, but I'm fairly certain the one on What has more sites available (and possibly more recent code changes).

After a bit of digging around I think I've something that's close enough to a solution. FF supports opensearch but doesn't really give a straightforward way for the average end user to edit the search plugins added through it. You can either go to the directory which your custom search plugins' configurations are stored

%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles{profile ID here}\searchplugins

and edit the xml files, which isn't actually too hard to do, or you can use mycroftproject to configure your own opensearch plugin.

This is pretty hacky. I hope Mozilla implements a solution similar to Chrom* in the future.

1. Click on "subreddit search" here.
2. Open the search bar menu and click Manage Search Engines
3. Click the search item you just added, click Edit Keywoard, just put an "r" in the box minus quotes, and click OK twice.
4. In the location bar, typing "r firefox" minus quotes should bring you to the subreddit.

http://mycroftproject.com"?

Hello u/Im_Special, it appears you tried to put a link in a title, since most users cant click these I have placed it here for you

^I ^am ^a ^bot ^if ^you ^have ^any ^suggestions ^dm ^me

Oh, I misunderstood you. I think you could get that to work. You'd likely need to make a custom search using e.g. http://mycroftproject.com/submitos.html or http://ready.to/search/make/en_make_plugin.htm

There are other options aswell: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5pwvke/how_do_i_edit_search_engines_predefined_urls/

I miss the old Opera versions where you could just enter the search link directly.

I suppose that an agreement would be involved, which would include a financial payment to Mozilla to support Firefox development.

Then, there's no reason for a user to install a search engine of their choice, it would have whatever features were built into it.

http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=reddit

Can you try adding from this page?

Then, set to default after it has been added.

Isn't that like the search engine keyword? e.g. typing g something into the addressbar will navigate to https://www.google.com/search?q=something.

If that's what you need, you can add your own search engine. It doesn't matter if the URL is actually for searching or not.

In Chrome, you can add your own custom search engine manually from the browser settings page. In Firefox, you'll have to create it on a server first. e.g.

http://mycroftproject.com/

I use this custom search engine.

Or you can add -inurl:pinimg to your searches manually. It removes all pinterest sites, as all the images are hosted in the same place.

How about keyword searches (e. g. https://www.google.com/search?&q=%s%20-site:pinterest.com) or custom search engines with the search operators you regularly use?

I don't think Firefox has a method to install search engine plugins from XML files on disk or on a server. The three supported methods are:

(A) Installing from the Mozilla Add-ons site (you can register and upload your own, although some features of the site behave oddly)

(B) Firefox discovers an OpenSearch plugin advertised in a <link rel="search"> tag in the page and adds an item to the Search Bar drop-down

(C) A site uses a JavaScript method to trigger installation of the plugin (the way Mycroft does it, for example)

This page lets you add a plugin to Mycroft, if that's helpful: http://mycroftproject.com/submitos.html

Instead of relying on Google to redirect from .com to your country-specific Google site, you could consider adding a new search engine plugin. For example, from http://mycroftproject.com/google-search-plugins.html

-inurl:pinimg works for all pinterest sites.

Also, this is a custom search engine that adds it to google images automatically.

http://mycroftproject.com/

You can't do it automatically (I believe the reasoning behind not adding every search to address bar is security) but that has almost any search engine and you can easily make your own. This will add them to the search engine part in settings and not as bookmarks.

> And is there any easier way to do this than this method?

Maybe the search plug-in that ships with some parameters that identify Mozilla as an affiliate, earning them money when you search. If you don't care about that stuff, all you have to do is click the eBay search plug-in of your choice at mycroftproject.com.

> So, what's the secret to reduce the size of the results bar? > > I only need the autocomplete for lifehacker (or any other website) in the urlbar, nothing below it.

In about:config, you can toggle:

browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled => false

Does that give you what you want?

> Also, any word on how to configure browse by name?

Install a BBN search plugin and make it your default search engine? http://mycroftproject.com/google-search-plugins.html

When you visit google.com/ncr Google sets a cookie that should persist until you flush your Google cookies. With that in place, the built-in Google search plugin should stay on google.com.

There might be a way to add a "no country redirect" parameter to a search plugin URL. There is one listed on the following page but I haven't tested it:

http://mycroftproject.com/google-search-plugins.html

> maybe Im just accustomed to do it like that from the times of Opera 12 and older...

Fair enough. But, if you want to switch browsers, you'll have to accept not everything will be the exact same and you may have to take a different approach to some things.

>For example, I want to add images.google.com and it blows my mind with all these providers that Im not sure what should I choose.

http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=google+images

Just pick the one that suites your needs. In this case, it's probably the top one. Others specify what they do differently. For example, the second one has in parentheses 1024X768...meaning it will search google images with that search constraint. Others have things like >2MP, so it will search google images for results >2MP

? Do you mean the thing on the right side of the nav bar? because you can set that to be any search you want and as many as you might like it to be, even more so with the mycroft project. You can probably also get it to work that way from the nav bar itself, like chrome does, but I like it this way so I've never investigated that. I just hit crtl-K to get to the search instead of crtl-l to get to the nav bar, so it's not really any slower to me.

Yes, but the big difference is customizing the search bar, which really isn't facilitated too well. Click to manage it and then add, and you just get addons, not the mycroft page. Let's all go there now to find something useful

I use that URL trick al lot to see if there are any interesting comments about an article on Reddit. To simplify the process I added the search engine to Firefox and gave it the keyword "rr", so now I can do the search by typing "rr url:" in the address bar and pasting the generally identifying part of a URL behind it.

Not a plugin, but if you're on What, there's their private tracker metasearch, which is pretty good. No idea how it compares to the others, as it's the only one I've bothered setting up (I don't need it that often). Search their forums for the info on setting up and pre-configured lines for some standard trackers. (Note: does not work if the tracker does not have the item's name in the search results URL).

I know at one point it was made into Mycroft, but I'm fairly certain the one on What has more sites available (and possibly more recent code changes).

https://www.usenetserver.com/ has a web option, but it SUCKS compared to easynews.

I miss EasyNew's and their web interface and search engine. Probably going back after my year of Usenet is up.

If you use Easynews - check out the Easynews (SSL) Firefox search plugin that was created awhile back by me. http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=easynews

bookworms, probably are, but if not, should be aware of goodreads (website). my favourite way to use it is having setup a context menu search that finds the site page for the book/author, where i can then read more about more info, other reviews and add to my reading list there.

you'll need the following addons

add to search bar (could also use, http://mycroftproject.com/ -> to add search engines for the sites your interested in)

context menu search

and possibly, menu wizard.

with a little bit of config, should get something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/tfBaE9G.png

pretty good way to quick search anything on a site you use regularly.

And you can add so many more Search Providers which you can also enable in the Assistant through http://mycroftproject.com/ for example, or even by activating any search field on any webpage in the Browser, and selecting Add Search from the context menu.

Somehow this sounds like an old person typing Facebook into Google instead of just typing it in the address-bar. You can get the same result, in a faster and more private way, by just loading in the search engines you need from Mycroft Project or through Add to Search Bar and assigning the desired keywords.

Moreover the search engines are then available through Context Search which significantly reduces the steps for searching an on-the-page piece of text.

You posted asking about keyword.URL which controls (well, controlled) which engine is used for searches from the location bar and when you right click a highlighted word.

If "verbatim, ncr and search by name" are customizations to a google search, you may need to look for other similar addon that let you customize the URL used or else create your own custom search Then you should be able to choose it from the addon I previously linked.

I didn't look hard, but you may be able to figure out how to make one from here.

1. Don't use the term 'bomb diggity', generally accepted that only idiots let it pass through their lips.

2. I should mention, to help you build up the search engines used in context menu, use this app to easily set them up in your custom search:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-to-search-bar/

Also see the below site for list of search plugins that might be useful or if you have trouble with search terms:

http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html

I miss Easy's global search. My new provider has searches, but it is only for NZBs and it sucks compared to EZ's advanced options.

here is how you can add it to FireFox if needed.

http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=easynews

You should really check out the Mycroft Project. It allows you to install really specific search engines. My favorite is for The Pirate Bay that automatically sorts by the amount of seeders.

My favorite is adding a modified google search in firefox that defaults results to last year.

http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=google+year

Really helps out for tracking down current issues in linux. Or more current searches on projects,devices or current news. And installed and then manage search engines and making it the top default.

.

It'd be nice if it offered an OpenSearch description file so that it's easy to use directly as search plugin in Firefox (and I believe Chrome, too). The Mycroft project makes it easy to create: http://mycroftproject.com