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Vimium Custom search engine example, with my useful things

Some useful search engines I use

Name Setting Extra description and notes
Wikipedia w: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s
Home home: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/INPUT+HOME+LOCATION/%s Find your way from your home to places using Google Maps*
Recent recent: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=qdr:y&q=%s Google results only for the last year
Stack Overflow so: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%s
Youtube yt: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s
Imdb imdb: http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%s
Google Images gi: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%s
Github git: https://github.com/search?q=%s
Facebook fb: https://www.facebook.com/search/str/%s/keywords_top
Gmail gmail: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search
Google Contacts contacts: https://contacts.google.com/preview/search/%s
Translate trns: https://translate.google.com/#en/iw/%s English to Hebrew
Ebay ebay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=%s&_sacat=See-All-Categories Search in all categories, and only 'Buy It Now'
Wikitionary wk: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go
Torrentz tz: https://torrentz.eu/search?q=%s
Kickass torrents kat: https://kat.cr/usearch/%s

Some Hebrew stuff

Name Setting Extra description and notes
Translate תרגם: https://translate.google.co.il/#iw/en/%s Hebrew to English
Wikipedia ו: http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s The Hebrew Wikipedia
Wikitionary ומ: http://he.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go Wikitionary in Hebrew
  • note: if your home is set as 'Home' in Google Maps, you can write 'Home' instead of the full location
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