Use aliases of Web Search Engine Intelligently

Although you can activate a group of web search engines in Risingware Exp+ simultaneously, you just want to search in particular one(s) at times. Well, an alias can do the trick.

Before Use Alt+F5 to open the Manage Web Search Engines window. Make sure aliases have already been set up. Notice that you can set a few search engines with the same alias. In this way, you can call a specified group of them with a single alias.


Note: As you can see, search engines checked are Google Search and Yahoo Search, and they will be activated at every regular search.

Step 1 At web search bar, type an alias and search keywords.

Format: Alias + one Colon(:)+ Search Keywords

Note: An alias always precedes keywords, and both are separated by a colon(:). There is no difference whether you put Space between colon(:) and keywords.


In below screen capture, ‘g’ is the alias of Google search, ‘Risingware Exp+’ is the keywords.



If you want to activate more than one search engine, add ‘,’ or ‘;’ between aliases. Here ‘a’ is the alias of Ask.com.






Step 2 Press Enter key or press the Start button at the right corner to command the corresponding search engine to search the web.




After The web search engines corresponding to your aliases, Google Search and Ask.com, will search the web and present the search results to you.

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Easy steps to add additional Web Search Engines

In Risingware Exp+, you are allowed to add extra web search engines, which is currently not in the default list. And you'll find it as easy as it can get.

Step 1 Use hotkey Alt+F5 or left-click on the button at the left of search bar, then, a Manage Web Search Engines window will be opened.



Step 2 Press the Add(+) button, fields in Search Engine area will become editable. Then, Type a name and an alias for the search engine you are creating in [Name] and [Alias]* fields. Finally, press Confirm button to save settings. The following steps will lead you to find the accurate URL address to fill in.



Step 3 Type a homepage URL of the web search engine in address bar of a tab in Risingware Exp+, and press Enter. After that, type any search keyword in search bar of the search homepage. Here we take flickr.com for example, type sky as search keyword, then press SEARCH button.



Step 4 Copy the URL address of the search result page.





Step 5 Paste it onto [URL Address] field in the Manage Web Search Engines window, and replace the search keyword sky with %s. Finally, press the Confirm button.



Note*:We'll teach you how to make good use of its alias in the next article titled "Easy steps to add additional Web Search Engines".

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