Solved Syntax for Site Search with Ecosia

[Pesala]

The syntax to use Google search is, I believe:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:mywebsite.com

How can I set up a site-specific search using Ecosia (or DuckDuckGo)?

[nomadic]

@pesala If you encode the ":" it seems to work.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s+site%3Aaimwell.org

[Pesala]

https://google.com/search?q=%s+site:aimwell.org works fine, but https://duckduckgo.com/search?q=%s+site:aimwell.org leads to a page for removing extensions. What's up?

[Pesala]

This string seems to work OK for my website:

https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=%s+site:aimwell.org

[Streptococcus]

For Duckduckgo, this is what I am using: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

I am not using Ecosia.

[Pesala]

@streptococcus That works for a default search, but not for a site search.

https://duckduckgo.com/search?q=%s+site:aimwell.org

Sends me to this URL:

https://help.duckduckgo.com/add-ons/removal/

[Streptococcus]

@pesala
Why not just use the default search and search for the site?
If I use your syntax with my default browser (SeaMonkey), I get a page called "search Meanings at DuckDuckGo". If I use the same thing with Vivaldi, I get the same result as you do.

[nomadic]

@pesala If you encode the ":" it seems to work.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s+site%3Aaimwell.org

[Pesala]

@streptococcus said in Syntax for Site Search with Ecosia:

Why not just use the default search and search for the site?

A site search searches the site for the selected text.

@nomadic Yes, that works, but it seems odd that Ecosia does not need to have the colon encoded, while DDG does.

[Pesala]

To get an icon for my site search, I added a search engine for another Buddhist site, then edited its URL to my Ecosia site search, and deleted the previous search engine for my site.