Well-Minded Search Gone? Best Alternative?

[mikeslr]

Hi All,

Formerly, when I had a problem, or wanted to find out if there was information already on the forum concerning a topic, I'd call up "The Well-Minded" Search: http://www.wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html and plug in a couple of key words. But for the last couple of weeks doing so has resulted in a message which reads:
"Hostname lookup for "www.wellminded.com" failed"

So I guess its gone. Which is particularly unfortunate as well-minded was a google search engine dedicated to Puppy. It was especially useful for locating a post a couple years old which you know existed. Locating it, if you can ever find it again, could take a long time as the post for example might now be buried on page 36 of some thread.

In its absence, I've taken to running an actual "google search." But I wonder if anyone can recommend a better alternative?

Edit: Geoffrey found this: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=015995643 ... #gsc.tab=0

mikesLr

[Hotdog]

Mikeslr,

I also lament the loss of the Well-Minded search. There were some posts at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=92090 on this topic. Some guys there made some useful suggestions. I am trying some of them myself.

EDIT: Sorry, I mistyped your name, now corrected.

[mow9902]

This still works for me...

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyLinuxSearchEngine

[Semme]

Right'choo are! This does work. Different implementations I suppose..

[tuxtoo]

I have relied heavily on the wellminded search and was sorry when it disappeared so I have included it as it was before the wellminded.com site went down on http://412collection.neocities.org/wellminded.html and it is also an entirely new Puppy search here - http://wellminded.net63.net/

[rokytnji]

Thanks tuxtoo.

[tuxtoo]

You're welcome.

[Laie]

Tausend Dank!
Very helpful. I used to use the "wellminded Puppy search" very often.
Thanks a lot!

[foxpup]

I like dillo.
It compares to other browsers as Puppy compares to other linuxes.
You can learn a lot with it. Maybe. Soit. I like dillo.

Since dillo does not handle javascript, tuxtoo's wellminded puppy search,
which is very fine otherwise, does not work in dillo.

But it is very easy to make a wellminded search in dillo.
You can put this in the configfile dillorc:

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search_url="y Youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s"

for youtube or

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search_url="Wayback https://web.archive.org/web/*/%s"

for Wayback machine or

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search_url="gs Google Scholar https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=nl&q=%s&btnG=&lr="

if you want to look for papers in dutch or
if you want to search a site with google:

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search_url="m murga forum http://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:murga-linux.com/puppy/"

In dillo you search in the search box or the location/url/address bar.
Eg you type

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m wellminded search

to look for wellminded search on this puppyforum with the search_url from just above.

Firefox also can do this.
In dillo you have

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search_url="key name search_url_with_%s"

In firefox, create a bookmark which has the key and the exact same search_url_with_%s.

I do not use chrome or other browsers often, but
if you happen to know if one can do something like that in other browsers, please let us know.

I've added my wellminded puppy search that uses google to look on a lot of Puppy sites.

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http://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:murga-linux.com/puppy+OR+site:wikka.puppylinux.com+OR+site:puppylinux.com+OR+site:github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE+OR+site:bkhome.org+OR+site:puppylinux.info+OR+site:linuxquestions.org/questions/puppy-71+OR+site:old.reddit.com/r/puppylinux+OR+site:super/user.com/questions/tagged/puppylinux+OR+site:distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux+OR+site:smokey01.com+OR+site:archive.org/details/puppylinux+OR+site:dotpups.de+OR+site:distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/+OR+site:distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/+OR+site:distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/+OR+site:distro.ibiblio.org/puppyrus/+OR+site:412collection.neocities.org+OR+site:412collection.indigo.org+OR+site:slacko.eezy.xyz+OR+site:lx-pup.weebly.com+OR+site:debiandog.github.io/doglinux+OR+site:racypup.netlify.app+OR+site:github.com/DebianDog/+OR+site:puppylinux.us+OR+site:puppylinux.*+OR+site:dokkupuppylinux.info+OR+site:openlab.jp/puppylinux/index.html.en+OR+site:lightofdawn.org

.

[bigpup]

I use this search.
http://puppylinux.us/psearch.html
The web source selection drop down, gives you many choices.
Puppy forum is one of them.

What I like best is you can choose to search the forum, the complete web, or many other specific web sources simply by selecting it in the drop down selection.

[foxpup]

I use this search.
http://puppylinux.us/psearch.html
The web source selection drop down, gives you many choices.
Puppy forum is one of them.

What I like best is you can choose to search the forum, the complete web, or many other specific web sources simply by selecting it in the drop down selection.

And it works on dillo
Ar least the 1st search bar does.
The 2nd one (with Google! does not, it requires js.

Thank you Bigpup!

[Semme]

Incorporate this into your own custom html start-page:

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<form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get">
    <input type="text" name="q"/>
    <input type="submit" value="search" />
</form>