Suggestions for Search Engines to be added to the new Search Plugins Page

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Well.. Seeing as I am working on the new Search Plugins page for the Add-ons Site.. I would like everyone's suggestions to better populate the list of search plugins.

You can either give a basic suggestion, link to an AMO/Mycroft Project listing, or the full xml in a

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I do look forward to everyone's suggestions!

The following Search Engines are in the browser by default so they cannot be reasonably added to the Search Plugins page as they would refuse to install even if you removed them from your list. In order to get the following back you will have to "Restore defaults" from Manage Search Engines dialog box. Doing so will restore all inbox Search Plugins but will [b]NOT [/b]remove ones you have installed.

List is as follows:
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[*]DuckDuckGo
[*]Yahoo
[*]Bing
[*]Ecosia
[*]Twitter
[*]Wikipedia[/list]
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[Moonchild]

Off the top of my head:

IxQuick
StartPage
QWant.com
Yandex
Baidu
Thesaurus / reference.com
Tumblr search
Pinterest
Imgur search
Maybe Dogpile?

[LimboSlam]

Yes I have several:

Qwant (another privacy aimed search engine): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... dl-popular
Searx (another privacy and security aimed search engine): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... -0/?src=ss
Webopedia (Online Tech Dictionary for IT Professionals): http://www.webopedia.com/
Google Images (Search Google for an image): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... src=search
Bing Images (Search bing for an image): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... src=search
Yendex (Quick access to our search engine and other Yandex services): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... src=search
Dictionary (The most popular and trusted online dictionary to look up word definitions and synonyms anywhere you go): http://www.dictionary.com/
IMDB (Internet Movie Database): http://www.imdb.com/
Pale Moon Add-ons (Search for specified Pale Moon add-ons at APO): ?
Pale Moon forum (Search for topics and threads on the Pale Moon forums): ?
Twitter (Twitter instantly connects you with what's happening in the world. Search for people and topics on Twitter now!): ?

How about it? Does this help?

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Yandex (Quick access to our search engine and other Yandex services): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... src=search
Qwant (another privacy aimed search engine): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... dl-popular

Already Suggested by Moonchild.. DO WATCH OUT FOR THIS..

Twitter (Twitter instantly connects you with what's happening in the world. Search for people and topics on Twitter now!): ?

Already Default

Pale Moon Add-ons (Search for specified Pale Moon add-ons at APO): ?

The current search for the add-ons site operates as POST only it won't respond to GET arguments or queries at present.

Google Images (Search Google for an image): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... src=search
Bing Images (Search bing for an image): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... src=search

Aren't these a little redundant when you can just click the link on both search engines to make your search go from general web to images.. In fact the same kind of work to switch in the browser except once you are done you have to switch it back...

Pale Moon forum (Search for topics and threads on the Pale Moon forums): ?
Dictionary (The most popular and trusted online dictionary to look up word definitions and synonyms anywhere you go): http://www.dictionary.com/
Webopedia (Online Tech Dictionary for IT Professionals): http://www.webopedia.com/
Searx (another privacy and security aimed search engine): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... -0/?src=ss

k.

[LimboSlam]

Yandex (Quick access to our search engine and other Yandex services): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... src=search
Qwant (another privacy aimed search engine): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... dl-popular

Already Suggested by Moonchild.. DO WATCH OUT FOR THIS..

Sorry about that Matt (I forget what name you want to be called, so please forgive me and do correct me), my WIFI is running a bit slow and so everything is running late.

Pale Moon Add-ons (Search for specified Pale Moon add-ons at APO): ?

The current search for the add-ons site operates as POST only it won't respond to GET arguments or queries at present.

I see... Hm.

Google Images (Search Google for an image): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... src=search
Bing Images (Search bing for an image): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... src=search

Aren't these a little redundant when you can just click the link on both search engines to make your search go from general web to images.. In fact the same kind of work to switch in the browser except once you are done you have to switch it back...

I don't know. It was always a one way search and then exit, for me at least. That, and I wanted quick results on an image without jumping any kind of hoops. But an option is welcomed for the end user, right?

-PS: I would like to add IMDB (Internet Movie Database): http://www.imdb.com/

[Antonius32]

I have four suggestions:

• The Online Slang Dictionary - http://onlineslangdictionary.com/
• OpenStreetMap - http://www.openstreetmap.org/
• Unbubble - https://www.unbubble.eu/
• Wolfram|Alpha - https://www.wolframalpha.com/

By the way, I think Ixquick has been discontinued in favor of Startpage recently.

[ron_1]

Here's what I have that's not default. I don't know which ones are "official," some may have been made with the "Add to Search Bar" add-on:

• McAfee SiteAdvisor
  Norton's Safe Web
  Accuweather Forcast
  Amazon Search Suggestions
  Ebay
  Walmart
  Hulu
  YouTube
  Ixquick HTTPS (different than MC's suggesion, note the HTTPS)

[coffeebreak]

By the way, I think Ixquick has been discontinued in favor of Startpage recently.

It was (announcement here). But for some reason they have continued https://www.ixquick.eu/.

Off-topic:
As a side note... It's possible (with both Ixquick and Startpage) to install the search plugin from its settings page with your custom preferences, if anyone's interested.

[High Tide]

I would suggest abbreviations.com which I use quite often.
wiktionary.org might also be useful.
Maybe privatelee.com as an additional privacy orientated search engine.
pc.net is a simpler alternative to the already suggested webopedia.com.
Then there's urbandictionary.com, but not sure if that's appropriate.

http://www.abbreviations.com
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page
https://privatelee.com
http://pc.net
http://www.urbandictionary.com/

[Antonius32]

By the way, I think Ixquick has been discontinued in favor of Startpage recently.

It was (announcement here). But for some reason they have continued https://www.ixquick.eu/.

Thanks for that info!

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