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Adding IceRocket Search Engine

la 6. joulukuuta 2008 07:05:35 — bluebrave

I found some old posts on adding search engines to WOT (other search engines and scroogle scraper).

I would like to add IceRocket's web search to my WOT (so that I can get the site ratings before clicking). I couldn't figure out the code to do so based on the old posts on adding a search engine to WOT. I could only get icerocket to appear in the "Select when ratings are shown" list under the "Searching" tab of WOT's settings, but no ratings ever appeared when I used the site. Additionally, I tried using the code from the old posts (for blingo and scroogle) as a test and had the same result (appears in 'show ratings' list but none are produced when using the sites).

I found icerocket has very similar results to google without the tracking (and complicity with China censorship) issues - overall, an excellent search engine.

Any chance I could get the code to use in user.js or prefs.js? Better yet, any chance icerocket can be added to WOT?

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More info

la 6. joulukuuta 2008 20:19:16 — bluebrave

I noticed that I forgot to mention that I'm using Firefox 3 as my browser.

Again, does anyone know how I can add another search engine (Icerocket, in this case) to WOT?

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Re: Adding IceRocket Search Engine

la 6. joulukuuta 2008 20:29:16 — Sami

Adding IceRocket should be easy. You can e.g. copy the Baidu rules from about:config and simply replace baidu.com with the proper URL and tune the style rule. I can take a look at it next week.

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Same result

la 6. joulukuuta 2008 21:08:08 — bluebrave

I tried your suggestion in about:config and found the same result (listed in the search engines but no rating). I also tried placing it in via the prefs.js file and same result.

I'll keep working on it this evening and post if I figure it out. More likely, you'll get it worked out before me, though.

No matter what, thanks!

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Woah awesome search

su 7. joulukuuta 2008 00:34:16 — wehaveitall

Woah, that's an awesome search engine! Thanks for showing everyone. I think that WOT should be available for the icerocket search by default.

WOT ROCKS!

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Success!

su 7. joulukuuta 2008 02:12:09 — bluebrave

Sami and wehaveitall,

I lucked out, I believe.

I monkeyed with the style rule for a while without any luck. Finally, I thought screw it, it's similar to google's searches, I'll just use the google search rules and replace "google" with "icerocket" and see what happens. It was a total crap shoot but it worked.

I'm not sure if everything in the following rule is necessary (like I said, I just replaced the google with icerocket) - some may be superfluous. Maybe Sami (who knows way more about this than I) could get rid of the unnecessary values.

Here are the instructions to adding IceRocket to WOT:
*** NOTE: Before doing this, I recommend creating a backup of your prefs.js file in case you goof something up! Go to your Firefox profile (usually at C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random].default).
Find the prefs.js file and copy/past a copy of it elsewhere to serve as your backup.***

1. In Firefox, type "about:config" in the address bar and click the "I'll be careful..." button (assuming you will be).

2. Scroll down to the "weboftrust" entries OR type "weboftrust" in the Filter line. Scroll down until you see the "weboftrust.search.google..." lines. There should be 7 or 8 lines. Make sure you are on the google lines and not the gmail or googleimages lines.

3. Right click on the first google line (weboftrust.search.google.display) and select Copy. Then Right click again go down to "New" and select the appropriate choice (in the "weboftrust.search.google.display" case, select "String", for example).

4. Paste what you copied in step 3 in the 'preference name box. Replace all instances of google with icerocket (watch your spelling). Then, delete the semicolon and highlight and CUT (or copy and delete) the text to the right of the semicolon ("icerocket", in our example) at the end (in our example you should be left with "weboftrust.search.google.display"). Click Ok.

5. In the "Enter [string/integer/boolean] value" box, Paste (or select true/false in boolean) the text you cut in step 4 ("icerocket" ). Click Ok.

6. Repeat steps 3-5 going down the list (about 6 or 7 more) of "weboftrust.search.google..." entries.

7. Restart firefox. Go to icerocket and test it out.

If anyone is interested, I can also give you the steps to getting icerocket into you firefox search engine bar.