Search nicknames clean-up and "search for image"

OscarBrownbread

Search nicknames are amazing. Just "w Vivaldi" brings me to Wikipedia. I want to expand my list, but first a clean-up.

Any advice with cleaning up my search nicknames? I had a few old ones, but now there seems to be newer ones with more functionality. Presumably, I should delete some of my old (manual) ones. For example, to search DuckDuckGo I now have d, dd, and d1 (I just want d and that's it.)

I have the following (see image below):

So I should delete 2 and 3, set d1 to d, and tick "set as Private search" if needed.

I have !two! Google searches with nickname g. I didn't know that was possible. I suppose I will delete my old (manually coded) one and use the new one with all it's variable magic.

Another thing, my "Search for image" doesn't work; it just brings me to the website but the image is not searched. I have three: Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo (none work).

Any ideas why it's not working? For Google, I have
https://www.google.com/searchbyimage/upload
with post parameters
encoded_image={google:imageThumbnail},image_url={google:imageURL},sbisrc={google:imageSearchSource},original_width={google:imageOriginalWidth},original_height={google:imageOriginalHeight}

Anyway, let's see how I get on.

OscarBrownbread

So "Search for image" is broken and reported already (VB-99734). That's fine. Also, my DuckDuckGo image search was one I manually added and that isn't going to work. Anyway, here is my little update.

Pathduck

@OscarBrownbread said in Search nicknames clean-up and "search for image":

Search nicknames are amazing.

I agree

Any advice with cleaning up my search nicknames? I had a few old ones, but now there seems to be newer ones with more functionality. Presumably, I should delete some of my old (manual) ones. For example, to search DuckDuckGo I now have d, dd, and d1 (I just want d and that's it.)

You don't have that many, should be easy. I have about 70 currently - not that I use all of them daily

My tips:

Click Restore Defaults. You have mostly default ones anyway, possibly except YouTube. Just copy the params for that one and restore the defaults.
Do NOT mess with the defaults. They will just come back on updates and you'll have duplicate keywords. If you need the keyword for something else, just change it.
If you don't need one of the defaults, just don't use it. Don't delete it, same reason as above.
A large list of community maintained search engine strings:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/46609/guide-vivaldi-search-engines-collection

Another thing, my "Search for image" doesn't work; it just brings me to the website but the image is not searched.

Known issue. Google has replaced it with Lens in Chromium and it broke Vivaldi's variables.

Here's Lens:
URL: https://lens.google.com/uploadbyurl?url=%s
Image Search URL: https://lens.google.com/uploadbyurl?url={google:imageURL}

The same has apparently happened with Bing. But I don't use Bing so...

DuckDuckGo (none work).

DDG never had reverse image search, which is what we're talking about here.

OscarBrownbread

@Pathduck 70! sounds like a number to aim for. Thanks for the tips!