Search the Web action suggestions

The Search the Web action lets you pre-specify a URL, prompts for a search text, and then opens that search in the browser. The default search string is for Google:

http:⁄⁄www.google.com/search?q=%Search%

The action is documented on the wiki at: Search the Web action.

It was suggested by email to me that there be a list of potential search URLs as these are not obvious or necessarily easy to find, but I don’t know many myself either - hence this topic. If you know any URLs for search engines, please post them here and then they can be added to the wiki (any wiki editors who want to compile the list, feel free, otherwise I’ll do it).

Thanks!

Here are a few:

Search engines

DuckDuckGo

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%Search%

DuckDuckGo: !Bangs

https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=%Search%

Startpage

http://startpage.com/do/search?language=english&query=%Search%

Startpage: Past day

http://startpage.com/do/search?language=english&query=%Search%&with_date=d

Startpage: Past month

http://startpage.com/do/search?language=english&query=%Search%&with_date=m

Startpage: Past week

http://startpage.com/do/search?language=english&query=%Search%&with_date=w

Startpage: Past year

http://startpage.com/do/search?language=english&query=%Search%&with_date=y

IXQuick

http://ixquick.com/do/search?language=english&query=%Search%

Bing

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%Search%

Bing: Images

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%Search%

Google

http://www.google.com/search?q=%Search%

Google: Exact string

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%Search%%22

Google: Web cache

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:%Search%

Google: Groups

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%Search%

Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%Search%

Geo search

Open Street Map

http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=%Search%&polygon=1&viewbox=

Apple Maps

http://maps.apple.com/?q=%Search%

Bing Maps

http://www.bing.com/maps/?where=%Search%

Google Maps

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%Search%

Host info

Network-Tools

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=express&host=%Search%

Website subpages list

http://www.sousites.com/%Search%

Dictionaries

Wiktionary

http://en.wiktionary.org/?search=%Search%

Urban dictionary

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%Search%

Translation

IATE: English to any

http://iate.europa.eu/SearchByQuery.do?method=search&valid=Search+&sourceLanguage=en&targetLanguages=s&domain=0&typeOfSearch=s&request=&query=%Search%

IATE: Any to any

http://iate.europa.eu/SearchByQuery.do?method=search&valid=Search+&sourceLanguage=s&targetLanguages=s&domain=0&typeOfSearch=s&request=&query=%Search%

IATE: German to English

http://iate.europa.eu/SearchByQuery.do?method=search&valid=Search+&sourceLanguage=de&targetLanguages=en&domain=0&typeOfSearch=s&request=&query=%Search%

Linguee: English/German

http://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=%Search%

Linguee: English/French

http://www.linguee.com/english-french/search?source=auto&query=%Search%

Linguee: English/Spanish

http://www.linguee.com/english-spanish/search?source=auto&query=%Search%

Leo: English/German

http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_de.html#/search=%Search%&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=expert&multiwordShowSingle=off

Bing translator (any to English)

http://www.bing.com/translator/?from=si&to=en&text=%Search%

Bing webpage translator (any to English)

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?ref=Internal&a=%Search%

Google translator (any to English)

https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/%Search%

Google webpage translator (any to English)

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=auto&tl=en&u=%Search%

Reference

Wolfram Alpha

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%Search%

StackExchange (all)

http://stackexchange.com/search?q=%Search%

StackOverflow

http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%Search%

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%Search%

IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%Search%

Vim Wiki

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=%Search%&fulltext=Search

CSS Tricks

https://css-tricks.com/search-results/?q=%Search%

WordPress plugins

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=%Search%

Games

Gamespot

http://www.gamespot.com/search/?q=%Search%&indices%5B%5D=article&indices%5B%5D=review&indices%5B%5D=game

Steamprices/sales

https://www.steamprices.com/us/search/?q=%Search%&p=1

Steamprices/sales II

http://steamsales.rhekua.com/search.php?term=%Search%

iTunes & Mac App Store

Mac App Store

macappstore://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?q=%Search%

iTunes

itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?term=%Search%

iTunes: Artist

itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?artistTerm=%Search%

iTunes: Song

itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?songTerm=%Search%

Appshopper

http://appshopper.com/search?search=%Search%

Apple related

Apple Discussions

https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?q=%Search%

Ask Different

https://apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=%Search%

Keyboard Maestro Forum

https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/search?q=%Search%

Macupdate

http://www.macupdate.com/find/mac/%Search%

MacOSXHints

http://www.macosxhints.com/search.php?query=%Search%&type=stories&mode=search&keyType=all

Shops

Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%Search%

Ebay

http://www.ebay.com/sch/%Search%

Local (URL schemes)

Man pages

x-man-page://%Search%

Dash

dash://%Search%

Evernote

evernote://search/%Search%

German

Amazon.de

https://www.amazon.de/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords==%Search%

Dictionary

https://www.duden.de/suchen/dudenonline/%Search%

Wikipedia

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%Search%
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Lets not forget:

Dogpile
(http://www.dogpile.com)

Thanks, I have added them all to the wiki page.

Search the Web action.