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 Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 3:34 pm Post subject: Google desktop search structure |
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Can anyone explain the search string structure that Google
Desktopuses? I'm a big proponent of Firefox, and by far the
biggestreason is the "Quicklink/Quicksearch" feature. This allows
you tocreate bookmarks for search engines and automatically pass
variables toit on the address bar. The default "google
quicksearch" inFirefox is an example: Instead of going to google.com
and typing inyour search, you simply type "google <searchterm>"
in youraddress bar and it takes you to those results.
Basically,quicksearches turn your address bar into a
multi-functionaltoolbar.
I have dozens of customized Quicksearches. They're going to be abig
feature in FF 2.0, and the process to create them will bestreamlined,
but for now creating them is a manual process. I'm tryingto create one
for Google Desktop. Usually the way to customize aquicksearch is
to run the search manually, examine the resulting searchstring, and
replace your search term with "%s" (without thequotes). For
example, if I go to Google News and type in AJAX, Iget the following
result -http://news.google.com/news?tab=gn&q=AJAX&hl=en&
. IfI create a bookmark for this result, replace AJAX with %s,
and givethat bookmark a keyword of GN (google news), I can then go to
theaddress bar and type "gn XBOX" and it will take me to Google
Newssearch results for XBOX.
So now I want
to do one for Google Desktop but it's not working. The search
string seems to change with each search. If I type in "YYY"in Google
Dekstop, for example, I get the following result -http://127.0.0.1:4664/search?q=YYY&flags=68&num=10&s=gqlVRNsdb882A5-6BmKspPx8a9Y.
If I do a Google Desktop serch for ZZZ, I get this result -http://127.0.0.1:4664/search?q=ZZZ&flags=68&num=10&s=EwzvST0td4tHv8sYOmvyZrpZhhY
Theresulting strings after "...10&s=" is significantly differentfor
each search. Is there a way to bypass that? That iswhat is
preventing me from creating a Google Desktop Quicksearch. Why I
replace the search string with %s and do a quicksearch, I get anerror
"You requested a page that does not exist. You may havereached
this page by clicking on an invalid link or bookmark.". Itried
chopping the result off after "ZZZ", "68&num=",
and"10&s=".
I know the question may be a bit archaic, but also hoping someone here MIGHT have run into this before. TIA. |
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