Serchilo:Browser Integration

Firefox
There are 3 ways to integrate Serchilo into Firefox:

Firefox Search Plugin
Firefox has in the upper right corner an input field of the search plugins. As default there is a Google search. To setup Serchilo there you need to:

After the plugin has been installed, you can switch from Google Search to Serchilo:
 * 1) go to the Serchilo Homepage
 * 2) select your language in the upper right corner
 * 3) click on Install the search plugin
 * 1) click in the search plugin field on the Google icon.
 * 2) choose Serchilo from the list. If you don't find Serchilo, restart Firefox.

Now you can enter all commands in this field. Old commands will be kept in the browser, so you can easily reuse them. You can reach this field with Ctrl-K.

If you have problems installing the plugin you may use the keyword bookmark:

Keyword Bookmark
Name:    Serchilo Location: http://en.serchilo.net/?q=%s Keyword: s If you prefer another language than English, replace en with another 2-letter language code.
 * 1) create a bookmark via Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks > New Bookmark
 * 2) Enter the following values:

Now you can type all commands in your address bar with a s before:
 * s g potato salad (Google search for potato salad)

In Address Bar
If you type something else than a URL in your address bar, Google's I'm feeling lucky-Search is called with your entered phrase. You can change this to Serchilo: http://en.serchilo.net/?q= Now you can type Serchilo commands in your address bar. If you prefer another language than English, replace en with another 2-letter language code.
 * 1) in your address bar type about:config
 * 2) in the Filter field search for keyword.URL
 * 3) right click on the line with keyword.URL
 * 4) select modify
 * 5) type in this URL

Additionally, you might want to set browser.urlbar.autoFill to false. Otherwise, Firefox will automatically try to complete Serchilo commands with URLs from your history/bookmarks, which is annoying.

Google Chrome 5
It appears you can make chrome aware of the search engine just by visiting serchilo.net, which will invisibly trigger a registration routine. Next, you'll have to bring up "Settings --> standard search engine --> configure". If everything worked correctly, serchilo should now appear in the presented list. You can select it and make it the default. If this failed, you'll have to do it manually:

To use Serchilo shortcuts in Chrome, you need to add it manually as search-engine under "Settings --> standard search engine --> configure". Here you can add a new search engine manually. The address you need to use is the following: http://de.serchilo.net/?q=%s (while you need to replace the "de" with your preferred lang-code). You need to set a letter or word as "search-shortcut" which is up to you. But since we don't want to use this shortcut plus the Serchilo-shortcuts in addition, you will want to set serchilo as standard search engine. After you've done this, you should be able to search in the address bar, like you used to in the search-field.

Internet Explorer 7
If you use Internet Explorer 7, you can add serchilo to the search engines in the upper right search bar. Look for the option add another search engine provider, or visit this URL. At the right side of that page, you can configure your own search engine. Use http://en.serchilo.net/?q=TEST (or http://Username.serchilo.net/?q=TEST ) as URL, call it Serchilo and click on install. If no error occured, move to your search engine bar with Ctrl+E and try some serchilo command.

Depending on your security settings, you may have to add http://*.serchilo.net to your trusted sites.

Safari 3 (and <3?)

 * 1) install Inquisitor
 * 2) configure Inquisitor via Settings of Safari
 * 3) enter Serchilo as standard search engine: http://de.serchilo.net/?q=%@)

Safari 4 (and 5)

 * 1) install keywurl
 * 2) set as default setting http://de.serchilo.net/?q=%@)

Safari 5:

 * 1) do the above steps
 * 2) use this description

Seamonkey
If you type something else than a URL in your address bar, Google's I'm feeling lucky-Search is called with your entered phrase. You can change this to Serchilo: http://en.serchilo.net/?q=
 * 1) in your address bar type about:config
 * 2) in the Filter field search for keyword
 * 3) right click on the line with keyword.URL
 * 4) select modify
 * 5) type in this URL
 * 1) right click on the line keyword.enabled
 * 2) select toggle

Now you can type Serchilo commands in your address bar. If you prefer another language than English, replace en with another 2-letter language code.

Opera 9 (at least)
To add Serchilo to Opera as a search engine, go to preferences (from menu: Tools->Preferences...). Choose the Search tab and click Add. Put in the following information: Name:   Serchilo Address: http://en.serchilo.net/?q=%s Then you can type a keyword of your choice. I used sl because s was already taken. Also, you can check to use Serchilo as your default search engine and the search engine in the search box at the top of the Speed Dial, if you want.

That's it. Click Ok a few times and you're ready to "command the web" faster.

Dillo
Open your dillo configuration file ~/.dillo/dillorc and add/change the search_url line to: search_url="http://en.serchilo.net/?q=%s" If you don't have a configuration file yet, there's an example at http://www.dillo.org/dillorc. When using dillo, you can open the search window with Ctrl+S.

In Address Bar (Gecko-based Epiphany, before 2.28)
If you type something else than a URL in your address bar, Google's I'm feeling lucky-Search is called with your entered phrase. You can change this to Serchilo: http://en.serchilo.net/?q= Now you can type Serchilo commands in your address bar. If you prefer another language than English, replace en with another 2-letter language code.
 * 1) in your address bar type about:config
 * 2) in the Filter field search for keyword.URL
 * 3) right click on the line with keyword.URL
 * 4) select modify
 * 5) type in this URL

In Adddress Bar (WebKit-based Epiphany 2.28+, gconf)
Tested on Debian squeeze (epiphany-browser version 2.30.6-1 0)

The search engine (in addition to some other things) is stored as a GConf variable. To edit it, you can fire up a GConf gui like gconf-editor or execute terminal commands. The following terminal command did the trick for me: gconftool --set /apps/epiphany/general/url_search --type string http://en.serchilo.net/?q=%s Of course, replace "en" with your preferred language.

In case you with to store the old search engine string somewhere, execute gconftool --get /apps/epiphany/general/url_search and store the output somewhere.

In Address bar (WebKit-based Epiphany 3.0+, gsettings)
Tested on debian wheezy (epiphany-browser version 3.2.1-2)

On live.gnome.org Epiphany FAQs it is mentioned, that there is another way to change the search engine on Gnome 3: gsettings set org.gnome.Epiphany keyword-search-url http://en.serchilo.net/?q=%s

OmniWeb
Go to Preferences &#x2192; Shortcuts, replace first default entry (www.*.com) with the following:


 * Name: Serchilo
 * Keyword: *
 * URL: http://en.serchilo.net/?q=%@

The search box in the toolbar is now superfluos and can be removed. Just hit &#x2318;+L and type your Serchilo command in the URL bar.

Nokia Internet Tablet
You can add Serchilo to the maemo internet search applet. (This requires root access to your tablet.)

  
 * 1) Resize the Serchilo logo to 30×90 px (or use the favicon instead) and save as /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/qgn_indi_search_serchilo.png
 * 2) create the file /usr/share/mis/serchilo-search.xml with:

Then stop and restart the internet search applet.

MobileSafari on iPhone
This is an easy way to integrate Serchilo in your iPhone.

Follow these steps and you will have a bookmarklet in your iPhone.
 * 1) Go to this url: Bookmarklet
 * 2) Add the page to your bookmarks
 * 3) Save the bookmark
 * 4) Go back to the bookmark menu and edit your recently created bookmark
 * 5) delete the text before the javascript in the url
 * 6) Save it and you are down

Now if you want to use Searchilo just go to your bookmark menu and open the Serchilo bookmarklet. The steps are also described here: description Have fun Lengemann 21:56, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

WARNING: I tried this method with my iPhone 3G and unfortunately it messed up the Safari Browser. Now I have to reset. Maybe I did something wrong but be careful Lengemann 18:49, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

If you have a jailbreaked iPhone, you can change the standard search of MobileSafari on your iPhone from Google to Serchilo. More about this on Nicolas Oestreich's Page.

With a Mac Desktop

 * 1) Download NewSearch.app on your Mac Desktop
 * 2) copy /Applications/MobileSafari/MobileSafari from your iPhone to your Mac Desktop
 * 3) drag MobileSafari on NewSearch.app and wait 2 sec. The file MobileSafari will be changed and a backup will be created
 * 4) copy MobileSafari back on your iPhone

With a Windows Desktop

 * 1) Download MobileSafari Search Patcher from radge.org on your Windows Desktop
 * 2) start MobileSafari Search Patcher and follow the instructions

Dashboard Widget


This Dashboard widget allows you to use Serchilo on your Mac OS X Dashboard. At least version 10.4 (Tiger) is required.

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Simple installation instructions: Normally it should be sufficient, to download and unarchive the linked file. Then simply double click on the widget icon and dashboard should open and ask you if you want to keep the widget. Click "keep" to finish installation or "cancel" if you changed your mind.

Complete installation instructions: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you're using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you're using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it.

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