How to get the most out of search engines in Vivaldi

[margarita]

What do you know about search engines in Vivaldi and are you putting them to good use? Read on to see how to step up your game.

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[Pesala]

Please fix the regression (deliberate change?) that sorts the search engines on the context menu, bringing the most recently used to the top of the list.

I carefully sorted my search engines in Alphabetical order, and don't want them to keep changing. It is not ergonomic, especially if users have dozens of search engines. In my case, it's just a minor irritation to have to stop and read the menu, instead of relying on muscle memory.

@hellias said in Feature requests for Vivaldi 1.14:

Context menu search (right-click -> Search with)

@brook said in Feature requests for Vivaldi 1.14:

Show Search engine icons in "Search with..." context menu

@neltherion said in Feature requests for Vivaldi 1.14:

Sort search engines by name and/or manually

[margarita]

@pesala: Thank you for the feedback, we'll look into it.

[Avi]

There is a problem with search field suggestions that annoys me extremely, from the first day I started to use Vivaldi (which was almost a year ago). When you type fast, and select the first suggestion with arrow down very fast, you search results in what you have typed so far, not in what suggestion you selected.

I reported it already, VB-34652. Apparently people just don't notice this bug, probably because not using a separate search field, or not using arrow keys to select suggestions, or not doing it fast enough.

Thanks.

[Ayespy]

@margarita I wonder if you would like to expand on the use of search suggestion URLs, how to add them to the various search engines, and mention why it is that Vivaldi does not automatically include suggest URLs for all engines.

[margarita]

@ayespy: Could be something to look into in the future, thanks for the suggestion!

[neltherion]

@ayespy: Exactly...

[neltherion]

If you could provide adding POST-based search engines, That'd be great...

[Fang]

@neltherion said:

If you could provide adding POST-based search engines, That'd be great...

This is one of the most important functions for me and I miss the fact that it is impossible to add POST-based search engines

[cheekybuddha]

Please can you add the icon of the current search engine to the search box so it is possible to see at a glance what the current search is.

Also, it would be good if the shortcut to use a specific engine worked in the search box, not just the address box.

Thanks for your consideration.

[BubiBalboa]

@margarita:

After encouragement by your colleague Pettern (in this thread a few months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/6ksm8z/context_search_in_background_tab/) I filed a bug report/feature request for this weird behavior and another one to add the option to always open context searches in background tabs.

VB-29927 + VB-29928

To change the ranking of the searches after each search is very unintuitive and slows down the workflow significantly because you have to actively look for the desired search engine every single time.

I was told it would be a quick and simple fix.

[Cqoicebordel]

For all the privacy minded users, I would like to recommend the searx engine, which is open source, and can be installed on any server you want. You can try it at http://searx.me

[verter]

It would be nice if Vivaldi offered search suggestions for Google.

[Catweazle]

@cqoicebordel said in How to get the most out of search engines in Vivaldi:

For all the privacy minded users, I would like to recommend the searx engine, which is open source, and can be installed on any server you want. You can try it at http://searx.me

I know Searx, Qwant and other search engines, each has its pros and cons, so it is normal to include several of them.
Mainly I use Startpage (and the multisearch engine Ixquick from the same company), to have the best results and to include a lot of functionality in advanced searches, to have a built-in proxie and to be able to see videos on the same page of the search results, without having to enter the corresponding page, among others .
With the separate searchbar I also use others for specific things

[mib2berlin]

@verter
You have to pay fees if you include Google suggestions in your product.
Make in manual with:

http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?client=firefox&q=%s%

In the second field of the search setting.

Cheers, mib

[Dosky]

Lately I'm using Qwant for searches, it's privacy oriented.

[brook]

@cheekybuddha said:

Please can you add the icon of the current search engine to the search box so it is possible to see at a glance what the current search is.

This is also requested at Feature requests for Vivaldi 1.14
"Show selected Search engine icon in the Search field."

[QuHno]

I usually use Ecosia for searches because I like the idea behind it, but I can't say that I have a real favorite search engine - and I use a couple of specialized ones:

Hints:

• If you use the suggest URL you see in the field at the bottom you get suggestions for Ecosia too.
• If you have problems adding a search engine because it doesn't show up in the context menu, maybe this helps: https://quhno.vivaldi.net/2017/10/20/how-to-add-search-engines-that-use-post-to-vivaldi/ (shameless self promotion )

[TbGbe]

@quhno Regarding suggestions, I'm sure you meant to enter
https://ac.ecosia.org/?tt=vivaldi&q=%s&type=list

[Para-Noid]

I'm surprised to see that Google is "not" a partner. I will start "searching" for a different default search engine.
Does Google even partner with any browser other than the despised Chrome?
Come to think of it why use Chrome when Vivaldi is what Chrome wants to be?