Solved Friday poll: custom search engines

[marialeal]

Is it just me or are weeks flying by since we restarted these weekly polls? I can’t believe I’m saying this but it’s indeed Friday again, and time for a new poll!

This week we want to know if you’ve added custom search engines to Vivaldi, and if so, how many.

I personally use the Help Pages a lot, so I added it as a search engine and use a nickname to search directly from the address bar.

How about you? Don't forget to head to Vivaldi.net and cast your vote!

[marialeal]

It looks like 43% of you do have custom search engines, but a small amount (1-3), while 23% have not saved any custom search engine yet.

In the third position, with 19% of the votes, we have the search engine hoarders who have more than 10 (which as we've seen, could mean 60 or 100 ), followed by 4-6 (11%) and 7-9 (4%). Thanks for your participation!

[Catweazle]

@marialeal, voted +10, most specific ones for forums and other, main search is Andi

[mikeyb2001]

@Catweazle said in Friday poll: custom search engines:

@marialeal, voted +10, most specific ones for forums and other

damn

and thanks for the SS now i know how to do it i normally dont have the extra search bar in my setup but ill use it to ss my list too i have like 30 something CSEs counting the ones that come with the browser

[Pathduck]

I think I might be a statistical outlier

$ sqlite3 "Web Data" "select count() from keywords where prepopulate_id = 0;"
60

[DoctorG]

@Catweazle OMG! A Search Engine Hoarder.
SCNR.

[Stardust]

None. Never bothered with this

[mikeyb2001]

@Stardust so convenient you really should set up some CSEs it saves so much time

[stardepp]

@marialeal I have about 100 search engines. It's also my hobby to collect search engines.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/46609/guide-vivaldi-search-engines-collection

!

[barbudo2005]

@stardepp

I imagine that to maintain your "Guide Vivaldi search engines collection " thread, you check them all every day.

[derDay]

have 30 and I use almost all of them (one of the best features IMO)

[mikeyb2001]

@DoctorG you think @Catweazle is bad look at @stardepp

[Aaron]

+10
I added Google map and Amap(an Chinese map/navigation app)

[sgunhouse]

Used to have several, but that was in old Opera. Between hardware replacements and software updates, I have no custom search engines at this time. Only one I really miss is the one I had for Google Maps; some of the others probably don't even exist today.

[stardepp]

@mikeyb2001 What about me?

[Catweazle]

@stardepp

[DoctorG]

@mikeyb2001 i never meant "bad", i was astonished that some users have so many and use them.

[Catweazle]

@DoctorG, apart of some specific searches, I use mainly Andi, Startpage and Mojeek, but I test also others because, if they are valid, i mencioned it in the search engin collection from @stardepp, what he can surely confirm.
This colection is a good thing to share in the web and this way users to Vivaldi. AFAIK it's the biggest search engin list in the web.

[paul1149]

Not sure if this is what you have in mind, but I create custom searches by adding frequently-used terms to a plain vanilla search. For instance, I often look up things pertaining to LibreOffice, so the shortcut LO invokes this search:

https://paulgo.io/search?language=en-US&time_range=&safesearch=1&categories=general&q=(libreoffice%20OR%20openoffice)+Writer+%s

That pre-loads (libreoffice OR openoffice) Writer into the search string, saving me a lot of typing each time.

[Catweazle]

@paul1149, nice one, but for frecuent used sites I prefer Bookmarks.

[barbudo2005]

Sorry for being off-topic, but can I show my pencil collection so as not to appear in an unfavorable light?