The weather is rainy. Perhaps there will be many mushrooms. And Dzūkians have probably already taken their baskets and knifes and have been wandering in the woods. They are searching. I also search. And that happens almost every day. I open a new tab, activate the search field, type in a word, and press ENTER.
I hope I won’t lie saying that nowadays all browsers have search fields. So neither you have to open a search website before looking for something, nor you need to install additional search bars. The coolest part is that you are not restricted to just one search engine as Google, Yahoo, or Live Search. You can install additional ones, change the default engine, and also remove the unnecessary ones. For example, I don’t need the Amazon search engine, because I don’t use their services. So I simply deleted it in order not to keep unnecessary item in the daily view. Then additionally I installed the search of IMDB movies and some others.
The installation of search engines is usually compatible with different browsers, because a common OpenSearch format is used. So the Firefox search plugins also fit for IE 7 as well as for the recently released Chrome, which has been very hot during the last days.
One can use the search field not only when looking for some articles or things online, but also when you want to learn the meaning of an unknown word. Once I created the plugins of Urban English and English-Lithuanian-English dictionaries for the convenience of others and me as well. I am using those dictionaries quite often at home and at work too. I wrote them on the basis of other plugins in a text editor, but Microsoft even provides a tool for a quick producing of search plugins (unfortunately, you can’t attach an icon to the search field using this tool).
It’s trivial to install the plugins for the dictionaries. Using Firefox just click on the link and confirm your will of installation in the popup dialog.
And now let’s talk about the Google browser Chrome. Among all its features, it is also special in having just one input field for both – the location addresses and the search. Various properties of the search or of the address can be selected from the popup menu.
The installation of search engines to Chrome is alike. At first you have to click on the link of the plugin… Ups.. What’s that?
Chrome thinks that the search is necessarily related to the website from which it is being installed.. That’s a bug! Nevertheless, I can rename it to something context-related. The keyword will be necessary later when choosing the search engine, so let it be as short as possible, but also identifying enough. Let’s say, I chose the keyword “urban” for the urban dictionary.
Then the usage is like a piece of cake. If I want to look for a word in the urban dictionary, then I type in the search-engine keyword into the input field…
… press the TAB key…
… type in the word to find, and press ENTER.
The meanings of the searched word get listed in the page.
How often do you search? What search engines do you use? When did you last time were mushrooming in a forest?
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