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The missing Spotlight plugin system
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Quick Web Search with Google? #390

Open shams-ahmed opened 9 years ago

shams-ahmed commented 9 years ago

as the title says use google rather then Bing

nate-parrott commented 9 years ago

Google doesn't have an API that gives us raw search results, I don't think, so it's complicated...

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as the title says use google rather then Bing

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shams-ahmed commented 9 years ago

could do it with Custom search https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/overview

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4082966/what-are-the-alternatives-now-that-the-google-web-search-api-has-been-deprecated

but from the feedback doesn't seem like it give the same result as using a browser

jhuebsch commented 9 years ago

What about using duckduckgo instead of bing? Being able to leverage their !bang operators would be fantastic https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

jredwards commented 9 years ago

@jhuebsch There's a ddg plugin that will allow you to do exactly that, with backslash bang (e.g. !yt keyboard cat)

ducedo commented 9 years ago

Just found out about Flashlight but you can use the extension 'Custom Search' (not related to the previously mentioned custom search) to use whichever keyword you want.

texastoland commented 9 years ago

@jredwards Thanks I just replaced half a dozen plugins with DDG :metal: