Multiple Simultaneous Searches Using Nicknames

Ice007

@ryofurue said in Search multiple search engines at once...:

In addition, I'd like the search results to be optionally automatically tiled.

And I want that the sun shines as i wakeup. A search engine is a search engine.
Why I should try to have more than one on same time?

ryofurue

@Ice007 said in Search multiple search engines at once...:

Why I should try to have more than one on same time?

Hi! I'm not sure if I understand your question. I hope what I say below isn't totally off . . .

Are you saying you never search multiple search engines with a single keyword?

I do want to do that quite often. The most frequent one is this type: Say, I want to know all about "toga". So, I search Wikipedia. But, Wikipedia doesn't include the word's etymology. So, I next search Wiktionary with "toga" and find its etymology.

Vivaldi already includes a keyword for Wikipedia and I've created another keyword for Wiktionary. So, to search Wikipedia, I type

w toga

in the address box and then to search wiktionary, I type

wikt toga

But, this is so frequent that I want to create a search keyword that searches both databases at once, which is currently impossible.

You might think that Google search finds both, but Google search very rarely lists entries in Wiktionary.

barbudo2005

@ryofurue Your request is only 6 lines of code in AHK:

:*C1B:sw::
send ^c
Sleep,50
Run, https://wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%clipboard%
Run, https://www.wiktionary.org/search-redirect.php?family=wiktionary&language=en&search=%clipboard%&go=&go=Go
return

You highlight a word in a page and type "sw" (without quotes), and then open the two searches in two tabs in Wikipedia and Wiktionary.

This is the compiled exe file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/139MYn5mTT3wGVyHPOyKSZNn6mF7pVd6t/view?usp=sharing

barbudo2005

@ryofurue Sorry, it is not 6 lines is 8:

#If WinActive("ahk_exe vivaldi.exe") and ((A_Cursor = "Arrow") or (A_Cursor = "Unknown"))

:*C1B:sw::
send ^c
Sleep,50
Run, https://wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%clipboard%
Run, https://www.wiktionary.org/search-redirect.php?family=wiktionary&language=en&search=%clipboard%&go=&go=Go
return

#If

This 2 new lines allow that the code only run in Vivaldi and when the cursor is not the text type.

This is the new exe:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gxr2erODPBU-ao47ML7N_3madqa0q8TH/view?usp=sharing

sofroniecristian

@tsunamiz I would also love this feature. And maybe an import and export button for search engines. One way you could get around this problem at the moment is to use Google's search operators, more specifically to use the "site" operator. For example, if you want to search Wikipedia and and Cambridge dictionary at once for the word cliche you would write into Google: site:wikipedia.org | site:dictionary.cambridge.org cliche.

The url for this search engine would be https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+%7C+site%3Adictionary.cambridge.org+%s.

I would then advise you to use the Surfingkeys extension where you should add this to your customizations:

if (/google.com\/search/.test(location.href)) {
  mapkey('f', 'Open search result in same tab', () => {
    Hints.create('a > h3', Hints.dispatchMouseClick);
  });
  mapkey('af', 'Open search result in new tab', () => {
    Hints.create(getElems('a > h3'), Hints.dispatchMouseClick, { tabbed: true, active: false});
  });
  mapkey('cf', 'Open multiple search results in new tabs', () => {
    Hints.create(getElems('a > h3'), Hints.dispatchMouseClick, { tabbed: true, active: false, multipleHits: true });
  });
  mapkey('F', 'Click', () => { Hints.create('', Hints.dispatchMouseClick); });
}

This is insanely nice!

When I search for "cliche" in this way the first result is from Wikipedia, the second is from Cambridge. Then I press cf followed by a and b (those being the hints that appear on the screen) and I have both pages opened in new tabs in an instant.

You could also make use of all the other powerful google search operators and tricks. You should read this page for that:
http://www.googleguide.com
https://moz.com/blog/mastering-google-search-operators-in-67-steps?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seomoz+(SEOmoz+Daily+Blog)

Some example being:
inurl:dictionary inurl:english inurl:us
site:dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/
site:http://www.googleguide.com/*/search-tools calculations (you can use * as a wildcard)

LonM

There were multiple requests with lots of discussion on this, so I've merged them all here. Be sure to re-vote for the main topic if you're interested.

WildEnte

Adding my vote to this one, I failed creating a command chain that would give me a tiled view of 4 search engine results for the same search term.

Havokdan

I would also like this feature, in firefox there was an extension that did this, which was called foobar, I looked for something similar by extension, but none satisfactory.

shifte

fwiw, AutoHotKey acript.

^!m::
InputBox, hoge, Multiple simultaneous search, , ,300,100
if ErrorLevel <> 0
 {}
else
  {
 NewStr := RegExReplace(hoge, "\s+", "+")
 Run, https://www.google.com/search?q=%hoge%&num=100
 Run, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%hoge%
 Run, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%hoge%
  }
Return

SvenneOvik

Hi.
I used a multiple search engine app many years ago named "Copernic Agent Professional".
In that app you could select many differernt search engines to search at same time. It sorted out multiple hits and presented a nice simple result. You could also select interest categories that make it much easier to find what you where looking for. Unfortunately the program does not exist any longer. Could this be something that could be developed to be included in Vivaldi ? Copernic Agent Professional.jpg

cyberfly

Have been waiting and working around this for years now. Please consider/accept this as a possible and simple solution for this problem:

Control/Command+Enter on a query in the search bar should behave as it does in other contexts, i.e. open a new tab without switching focus to it (background tab). This will then allow us to simply navigate with keys to another search engine and press Enter again to achieve the same and so on thus resulting in many search tabs being open for a single query string.

Incredible how long we can survive without some crucial features instead of getting involved - had to look into this now already and offer my thoughts. Thank you! _/_