Following is a list of search strings that can be used in Avant. If you have one you'd like to share, reply to this thread and one of the mods can add it to this list so that they're all easier to find.

Search Strings

• AvantFind: http://www.avantfind.com/search.asp?keywords=%
  
• Dogpile: http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web/
  
• Dogpile Audio: http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/audio/
  
• Dogpile Images: http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/images/
  
• Dogpile News: http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/news/
  
• Dogpile Video: http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/multimedia/
  
• Exalead: http://www.exalead.com/search/C=0MlEAbX ... %3D&2q=&q=
  
• Google: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
  
• Google Directories: http://www.google.com/search?&cat=gwd%2 ... e=UTF-8&q=
  
• Google Groups: http://www.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
  
• Google Images: http://www.google.com/images?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
  
• Google News: http://www.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
  
• Mamma: http://www.mamma.com/Mamma?qtype=0&query=
  
• Mamma Images: http://www.mamma.com/Mamma_pictures?query=
  
• Mamma News: http://www.mamma.com/MammaNews?qtype=4& ... y=g&query=
  
• Vivisimo: http://vivisimo.com/search?tb=homepage&query=
  
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=
  
• Yahoo! Directories: http://search.yahoo.com/search/dir?fr=avant&p=
  
• Yahoo! Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=
  
• Yahoo! Images: http://img.search.yahoo.com/search/images?fr=avant&p=
  
• Yahoo! News: http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?fr=avant&p=

Notes:

• The links as they appear on this page may have been truncated by the board software. Instead of copying and pasting them directly, right-click and select "Copy Shortcut".
  
• For Google searches, you can use your local Google server (if there is one) by replacing the .com with your country's Top Level Domain, e.g.: google.fr, google.co.uk, google.com.au, etc.

MysteryFCM: Added Exalead

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=

Added - hornakapopolis

thank you.

THANX for the list.

I have found that in 11.7 b21....after you set it you must close AB and open up again...inorder for it to stick.
If you dont do that and try a search....it gets confused and will not work properly.

OP1

Some more usefull ones:

IMDB:

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http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%s

Youtube:

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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s

GameFAQs:

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http://www.gamefaqs.com/search/index.html?game=%s&platform=0

SourceForge:

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http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=%s

Image Google:

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http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%s&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

GuildWiki:

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http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

Encyclopedia Dramatica:

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http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Special:Search?search=%s

Google MP3 SearcH:

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=intitle:"index.of"+(mp3|mp4|avi)+%s&meta=

DLL Files:

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http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/pop.php?%s

Full DLLs:

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http://www.fulldls.com/search-all-torrents/?qa=

Video Google:

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http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%s&sitesearch=

Game Trailers:

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http://www.gametrailers.com/search.php?s=%s

Flip Text:

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http://www.fileformat.info/convert/text/upside-down.htm?text=%s

Retail Me Not:

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http://www.retailmenot.com/search.php?query=%s

The URL Alias feature is amazing...

Removed file sharing links. -DrDrrae

If you want to try out Bing here is its search string:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=

Cuil — "The world’s biggest search engine" (?)

Search string: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=