Custom Search Engine chrome extension

What is Custom Search Engine?

Custom Search Engine is a search engines extension for chrome. also, it is custom search engines extension. it's a free extension , it has 6,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 3.88 from 8 rated user, last update is 1453 days ago.

What’s new in version 1.6?

                # Description:
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This add-on allows users to define their own custom search engines and use it from address bar of the browser. You can save the custom engine details to a file and also load it from there. It allows easy sharing of custom defined engines too.

You now can also search using multiple search engines in one go. To use multi-search feature type "ms key1,key2,key3 <search text>".

Summary of Features:
* Search using single search engine (use search key as 'key1')
* Search using multiple search engine (use search key as 'key1,key2')
* Search using single search category (use search key as '@cat1'
* Search using multiple search category (use search key as '@cat1,cat2')
* Search using all search engines (use search key as '@')
* Search using search engines with empty category (use search key as '@@')


New feature added to search based on search engine category. Search engine category should be defined in the preferences page.

To search based in category please type "ms @<category> <search text>".

If you want to search using all search engines then simply use "ms @ <search text>".

It allows users to use multiple search tags ("{searchTerms}" or "{searchTerms[0]" etc) to define a search engine url.

E.g. Following are a valid custom search engine urls -
* https://www.google.co.in/search?q={searchTerms}
  To use above - "ms google convert CST time to PST"
* https://www.google.co.in/search?q=convert+{searchTerms[0]}+time+to+{searchTerms[1]}
  To use above - "ms google CST PST"

Few other examples:
* ms @food,restaurant pasta
   This will start search for text 'pasta' with search engines under category 'food' and also with search engines under category 'restaurant'.
* ms @ pasta
   This will start search for text 'pasta' with all the search engines defined under preferences.
* ms @@ pasta
   This will start search for text 'pasta' with all search engines with empty category.

# Add-on Preferences:
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Please follow below steps to update add-on preferences -

1. Go to "about:addons" from Firefox address bar
2. Click on "Preferences" for "Custom Search Engine" add-on.
3. Click on "Load Popular Search Engines". This will load few of the popular search engines details (e.g. duckduckgo, yahoo, google, bing).
4. Click on "Save Preferences"

Use above steps to also add your own custom engine details.

# Permissions Required:
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* storage - Save and load Preferences
* raw.githubusercontent.com - Load "popular search engines" from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rsins/ravi-firefox-custom-search-engines/master/SampleCustomEngines/PopularSearchEngines.txt

# Notes:
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If search engine key typed in address bar (after typing ms) points to single custom engine key then no need to type full key for custom search engine.

E.g. If "g" points to single custom engine lets say google then following will have same result-
ms google searchtext
ms g searchtext            

How to install Custom Search Engine?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Custom Search Engine

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Reviews of custom search engine:

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̇ July 17th, 2021

Big Thanks, I need Yandex and google search in chrome and this extension help me a lot!

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Phani KY April 15th, 2021

So, basically what it will do is if we add multiple search engines then it opens all those URLs in multiple tabs (10 engines = 10 tabs) with that search query. Not what I'm looking for. Thought it will be like 'google custom search engines' but with user-friendly customization.

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joseph dunn June 13th, 2019

Doesn't work. This would be perfect if you would be able to import your Chrome custom search engines.

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