Comments on: Amazing Firefox Search Engines Selection http://www.brianwhite.org/2008/06/10/amazing-firefox-search-engines-selection/ Webspam, Google, Et Cetera Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:44:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ian http://www.brianwhite.org/2008/06/10/amazing-firefox-search-engines-selection/#comment-143 Ian Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:41:33 +0000 http://www.brianwhite.org/?p=81#comment-143 mycroft.mozdev.org used to be directly accessible in FF 2.x - you used to click on "get more search engines" and you would go there directly. Now, one is taken to a long cumbersome page with misc extensions and a bunch of different <strike>crap</strike> stuff. Fortunately the add-on to search Mycroft ended up on that page, probably after people complained enough. Not sure if it's a question of retraining myself to follow a different path than one I was familiar with, or if it's genuinely bad usability, or if Mozilla doesn't care about satisfying the searcher's intent. Yeah I know I'm overreacting - I wouldn't have ranted here except this is the only post I've noticed that even talks about this issue. It made me hopping mad until I finally went ahead and installed the Mycroft search add-on - problem totally solved. I think that Mycroft is one of the coolest things about FIrefox, which is why I think the developers might want to give folks easier access to it. Maybe I just have issues adapting to change. Either way, cool post, it's nice to see Mycroft get some love. mycroft.mozdev.org used to be directly accessible in FF 2.x - you used to click on “get more search engines” and you would go there directly. Now, one is taken to a long cumbersome page with misc extensions and a bunch of different crap stuff. Fortunately the add-on to search Mycroft ended up on that page, probably after people complained enough. Not sure if it’s a question of retraining myself to follow a different path than one I was familiar with, or if it’s genuinely bad usability, or if Mozilla doesn’t care about satisfying the searcher’s intent.

Yeah I know I’m overreacting - I wouldn’t have ranted here except this is the only post I’ve noticed that even talks about this issue. It made me hopping mad until I finally went ahead and installed the Mycroft search add-on - problem totally solved.

I think that Mycroft is one of the coolest things about FIrefox, which is why I think the developers might want to give folks easier access to it. Maybe I just have issues adapting to change. Either way, cool post, it’s nice to see Mycroft get some love.

]]> By: Mark Vozzo http://www.brianwhite.org/2008/06/10/amazing-firefox-search-engines-selection/#comment-142 Mark Vozzo Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:28:42 +0000 http://www.brianwhite.org/?p=81#comment-142 Another great Search Toolbar that is very extensible is the Groowe Search Toolbar - http://www.groowe.com . It has heaps of search engines that are available via a drop down and you can easily create your own custom search bar for other sites. I am not associated to Groowe, just a huge fan. It's an awesome toolbar that combines many of the feature of other popular toolbars (E.g. Keyword Highlight, Trends, News, Backlinks ... and much more all-in-one. A great toolbar for a Search Marketer's toolkit. Another great Search Toolbar that is very extensible is the Groowe Search Toolbar - http://www.groowe.com . It has heaps of search engines that are available via a drop down and you can easily create your own custom search bar for other sites.

I am not associated to Groowe, just a huge fan. It’s an awesome toolbar that combines many of the feature of other popular toolbars (E.g. Keyword Highlight, Trends, News, Backlinks … and much more all-in-one. A great toolbar for a Search Marketer’s toolkit.

]]> By: Joost de Valk http://www.brianwhite.org/2008/06/10/amazing-firefox-search-engines-selection/#comment-141 Joost de Valk Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:45:51 +0000 http://www.brianwhite.org/?p=81#comment-141 Good to hear that, let me know if you need any others :) Good to hear that, let me know if you need any others :)

]]> By: Brian http://www.brianwhite.org/2008/06/10/amazing-firefox-search-engines-selection/#comment-140 Brian Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:35:10 +0000 http://www.brianwhite.org/?p=81#comment-140 Nice selection, Joost! I added the unpersonalized + last 24 hrs plugin :) Nice selection, Joost! I added the unpersonalized + last 24 hrs plugin :)

]]> By: Joost de Valk http://www.brianwhite.org/2008/06/10/amazing-firefox-search-engines-selection/#comment-139 Joost de Valk Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:59:20 +0000 http://www.brianwhite.org/?p=81#comment-139 Yeah these work great, I wrote a PHP script to auto generate these open search plugins for Google, passing on the parameters in the query string. Based on that I made quite a few plugins that you can download <a href="http://yoast.com/seo-tools/disable-personalized-search-plugin/" rel="nofollow">here</a>, among which are plugins to search with gl=us, pws=0, etc. Yeah these work great, I wrote a PHP script to auto generate these open search plugins for Google, passing on the parameters in the query string. Based on that I made quite a few plugins that you can download here, among which are plugins to search with gl=us, pws=0, etc.

]]>