This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide that introduces you to:
In order to change any blinkx settings, you need to display the blinkx settings dialog.
Click on the Settings button on the blinkx search box. The blinkx settings dialog is displayed:
blinkx can only search for files on your computer if they are in a folder that you have told blinkx to index. Indexing means that blinkx reads files, so that it can later return them to you as search results.
When you install blinkx, you can specify a folder for indexing but you can later add folders for blinkx to index. You can also remove folders from the indexing list, if you no longer want blinkx to search them.
You are now going to add a folder on your computer for blinkx to index.
blinkx can now index the contents of the folder you have added, so that it can display them as results if they are relevant to one of your desktop searches.
Now you are going to remove the folder you added for the blinkx desktop search again.
blinkx can removes the contents of the folder from its index, so that they are no longer available for desktop searches.
By default any web search that you execute from the blinkx search box is passed on to blinkx broadband, the only search engine that can not only execute simple keyword and Boolean searches but also conceptual search. The advantage of conceptual search is that you can query using ordinary text and find results that are truly relevant to your query, rather than just matching a few of the words you entered.
You can, however, also select another search engine to handle the web searches that you execute.
To change which web search provider blinkx uses:
By default the blinkx toolbar displays the following result types:
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Files on your machine |
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News articles |
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Web pages |
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Products |
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Video clips |
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Web logs |
Now you are going to change which result types the blinkx toolbar displays.
Website results and video clip results have been removed from the toolbar.
The toolbar displays all result types.
If you want blinkx to display results that contain adult material, check the Show Adult content box. Leave the box empty, if you want blinkx to filter out results that contain adult material. By default the box is not checked.