About this software

About GGsearch the SearchTool with Google™ power

What is it?

This software application is a handy tool for people like me, who are spending lots of time searching the various newsgroups posts, images, news, linux, stocks, bsd, microsoft, answers or links in google™.

It uses your windows default browser for showing search results. It is also easy to customize the SearchTool to work with your favourite browser.
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Platforms:

Windows versions: 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Browsers: Netscape 2+, Iexplorer v2+, Opera v3+, Mozilla candidate 1+, Netcaptor, Clickgarden, AOL, Firebird, MyIE2, Avant....and many others

Questions?

If you have any questions related to this software application, please don’t hesitate to ask them:

Found a bug? Please email (ggsearch@frysianfools.com) me about the problem. Or look for more info on the website.

Updates:
Find update on website

Special thanx and honor:

to all betaTesters, translators and friends of the SearchTool.

Without your help, the tool would not be possible. Thank you for the suggestions and enlightment. It is a pleasure and honor for me to have such great fans.

Author: P.J.Kraaima - Harlingen, The Netherlands

E-Mail: ggsearch@frysianfools.com

Website: http://www.frysianfools.com/ggsearch

Note:

This software is not a product of  Google™ nor is it related to Google™.

This application only makes use of some of Googles™ goodies.
www.google.com

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Blog options

Blog Options (Feedster™)

Blog Search engine:

You can choose between Google™ or Feedster™ (recommended)

Feedster™ blog search options:

Relevance \ Date Blogrank :

Limit to this RSS URL only:

Enter an RSS URL and the search tool will use that to search with feedster.

Limit to feeds in this OPML url:

Enter an OPML URL and the search tool will use that to search with feedster.

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Donations and gifts

Donations

Would you like to do more with this application?

For donators I have this nice present:

The Addon Application.

The Addon Application will give you extra/beta or test options for tweaking the SearchTool.

Visit: http://www.frysianfools.com/ggsearch/ for more information about what it can do for you.

Do you like to support freeware?

Yes; You can use this program freely.

Yes; I did spend all my free time programming it.

Yes; It would be a great help if you  support me along the way.

Now.. before you drop clothing and food at my house, can I suggest a small donation in Euro's or Dollars.

Please visit the website and donate

Thank you for using this tool!

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Extra Option

Extra Options

Bypassing the Single Character mode
Changing the language.
Hotkey
Use other IP

Bypassing the Single Character mode

For version v2:

In normal mode you cannot send a search request for 1 single character. I call that: "do not search for a Single Character" mode. Many languages use 1 character for a word or a meaning so to bypass the "do not search for a Single Character" mode:

open in notepad the ggsearch.ini (located in your installation folder)

Now put this line under the [GGSearchTool] tag:

BypassSingleChar=1

If you want to disable this option at a later time change it to:

BypassSingleChar=0

I do not recommend changing any of the other lines in ggsearch.ini

For Version v2.5 or higher

Download this tool:
http://www.frysianfools.com/ggsearch/addon/ggsearchaddon.exe

Changing the language.

Your language not available?

Try to download one from the website:

(www.frysianfools.com/ggsearch/ )

For version 2.5 or higher

Use the option: SearchTool options > SearchTool language

If you like to create you custom language follow the procedures for version2.

For version 2:

Look in your installation folder for a file called: language.ini

If it is not there you can download it from the website.

(www.frysianfools.com/ggsearch/ )

Unzip this language file into the installation folder/directory.

Open the language.ini in notepad and change the text after the = character.

Example language.ini: Only change the text after the = (colored green in this example)

[LANGUAGE]

Click_here_for_options=Click here for options

Enter_a_search_query=Enter a search query

Search_in_options=Search in options

Go_and_search=Go and search

Go_and_search_button=search

Hide_searchtool=Hide SearchTool

Hide_searchtool_hint=Hide the searchtool

Show_searchtool=Show the SearchTool

It would be great if you send your native language file to us (ggsearch@frysianfools.com) so we can make it available on the website for the rest of the world. Of course the credit and honor will be yours.

Note:

Made a big mistake in the language.ini? Delete the file and the tool will work normally again...

Or grab a fresh copy from the website...

Hotkey

When the tool is running in hidden state then it is possible to show it on the desktop using the keys:

ALT-SHIFT-G

Other IP

If you start up the SearchTool with the following Commandline:

"ggsearch.exe - ip.ip.ip.ip"

In words: Programname.exe space minus space IP address

(where ip.ip.ip.ip is a google server) The tool will use the ip for searching the www.

If you like to keep your settings: create a shortcut.

Like to startup minimized with other IP:

"ggsearch.exe -AutoRun ip.ip.ip.ip"

In words: Programname.exe space minusAutoRun space IP address


Google options

More Google™ Options

Google Home
Search in these sites
News Options
Universities
Extra Search Engine

Google™ Home:

You can change the default country site with this option. If you are dutch you could pick NL as Google™Home.

Search in these Sites:

Search only in the prefered sites Use a 'comma' , as seperator.

Example: frysianfools.com,lockergnome.com,cnn.com (Would let you search in those sites)

Note: You also need to enable this option in the menu

News Options:

Set the default News search domain

Universities:

To choose a different university: Click the find university link and browse the google list or goto: http://www.google.com/options/universities.html

When you click on the link of your choice on the Google webpage then it will show you the university search page.

Example:

On the Google page we pick as example: Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet

When you follow the link Google opens this page: http://www.google.com/univ/uni-freiburg

We need the last part to put into the field: uni-freiburg

Extra Search Engine:

If you like to search in another search engine then this is for you!

Fill in a Title, Search string before the search query and a search string after the search query..

Example: Yahoo. Let's say you want to search for the word: GGSEARCH in Yahoo. You go to the advanced search page of Yahoo and change the updated funtion to "Within the past 3 months" and your language to English and you change the number of results to 100 on a page. Now push the Yahoo! Search button.

Yahoo will give your browser one very big query string:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?_adv_prop=web&x=op&ei=UTF-8&prev_vm=p&fr=fp-top&va=&va_vt=any&vp=&vp_vt=any&vo=GGSEARCH&vo_vt=any&ve=&ve_vt=any&vd=m3&vst=0&vs=&vf=all&vm=i&vc=&fl=1&vl=lang_en&n=100

Lets get this into GGSearch:

Title: Yahoo

Before Query: http://search.yahoo.com/search?_adv_prop=web&x=op&ei=UTF-8&prev_vm=p&fr=fp-top&va=&va_vt=any&vp=&vp_vt=any&vo=

After Query: &vo_vt=any&ve=&ve_vt=any&vd=m3&vst=0&vs=&vf=all&vm=i&vc=&fl=1&vl=lang_en&n=100

Press "save" and restart the search tool now a new option will be available in the searchtool to search in.

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Option Index

GGsearch the SearchTool with Google™ power

About:

More info about the tool and creator

You need to know:

If you close the SearchTool by clicking on the x button in the main window it will minimize itself to the systemtray. The SearchTool can be closed by clicking the menu-option: exit

Single click on the tray icon minimizes or restores the main window.

Right mouse click on the tray icon pop-ups the option menu.

The main screen options:

Query field
Search In
Status bar

The Right Mouse Click options:

SearchTool options:

Extra options:

Note:

This software is not a product of  Google™ nor is it related to Google™.

This application only makes use of some of Googles™ goodies.
www.google.com

License Agreement

This SearchTool is provided AS IS without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall author be liable for any damages whatsoever, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if author have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Author: P.J.Kraaima

E-Mail: ggsearch@frysianfools.com

Website: www.frysianfools.com/ggsearch/

Copyright © 2002 P.J.Kraaima All Rights Reserved.

Google™ is a trademark Google. All Rights Reserved.


License Agreement:
License Agreement

Note:

This software is not a product of  Google© nor is it related to Google©.

This application only makes use of some of Googles© goodies.
www.google.com

License Agreement

GGSearch is provided AS IS without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall author be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if author have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

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Main Screen options

Main Screen Options

The main screen options are:

Query field
Search In option:

www, news, groups, images, linux, uncle, lucky, links, related, cache, translate, info, bsd, microsoft, answers, urls, files, & stocks
Status bar

If you close the SearchTool from this window by clicking on the x it will minimize itself to the systemtray.

When you rightclick on the search button you get a quicklist:

Tip:

GGSearch uses Mouse hints to help you a bit on your way ;) they show up in the status bar.

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MainScreen Query field

Main Screen Query field

In here you can fill in any search query you like.

Tip: Use – (the minus symbol) for things you don’t want to show up.

Example: freeware software –cnet –davecentral

This shows the results of many websites excluding: Cnet or Davecentral websites.

You find more search parameters on the Google website.

It also keeps a history of your latest searches. Feel free to disable this:

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Main Screen Search In option

Main Screen "Search In" option:

[Rightmouse click to sort the options].

This option lets you search with specific criteria.

Normal 'Search in' actions

Groups - Makes you search in groups only

Images - Makes you search for images only

www - Makes you search for websites only

News - Makes you search for news items...

Linux - Looking for Linux related results?

Uncle - Search for queries inside Uncle Sam's HQ.

BSD - Search for BSD related results.

Microfoft - Search for queries inside Microsoft related webpages.

Lucky - The Google engine takes the criteria and delivers directly to a webpage. (Are you lucky?)

Answers - Search for queries inside the Google's Answers.

Blog - Search for blogs

University - Search for queries in the university search engine

i-mode - Shows you results on the i-mode page

For links / urls only:

The criteria : 'related:', 'links:', 'cache:', 'Translate' and 'info:' are for url's.

Could be handy if you like to know if your website is listed or who is related to your website-content.

Related: - This will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page adress.

Links: - This will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage.

Cache: - This shows the page Google has in it's cache of the specified url.

Info: - This shows the infromation about the url Google has in it's cache

Translate: - Translate a webpage to English. Works for Italian, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese pages

Special options:

allintitle: - Use this syntax to search for keywords in the HTML Title Tag

allinurl: Use this syntax to search for keywords in the URL

allinanchor: Use this syntax to search for keywords in the Anchor Tag

Stocks: - Will treat the query as stock ticker symbol, and will link to a page showing this information. You must type in the ticker symbols and not the company name. So if you like to know what beer maker Heineken is doing on the market type: HEIN.AS

If you want more then one symbol put a space between two or more symbols:

Example for Heineken (Amsterdam) and McDonald's:

HEIN.AS MCD

Beta options:

Viewer: - View search results as scrolling web page images

Webquotes: - View search results with quotes about them from other sites

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Main Screen Status bar

Main Screen Status bar

At the bottom you’ll find the help/hint messages.

The SearchTool uses Mouse hints to help you a bit on your way ;) they show up in the status bar.

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Menu options

Menu Options

The available Menu options are:
Show SearchTool
Open results in same window (If available)
Search Exact
SafeSearch
Relevance Filter / Date*for groups only
Time Search options
Search in this language only
Image options
Use raw Google Mode
Page output
Blog Options (Feedster™)
Google™ Options

SearchTool Options:
Always on top
Hide on search
Result Language Output
History
Startup with windows
Transparency
Style
Enable Custom Browser
Enables splash Screen
Auto check for updates
SearchTool Language
Enable Counter
Theme

Extra Options:
Bypassing the Single Character mode
Customize the language.
Hotkey (ALT-SHIFT-G)
Use other IP

Show SearchTool

Let’s you view or hide the main screen. It hides itself as a little icon in your traybar. Double click on the icon to make it appear again on your desktop. -top-

Open in same window

(If available)

If you like to view new results in the same browser window instead opening a new browser window this option does the work for you. The searchTool detects if the browser is willing to give you this option. If not the searchtool hides the option. -top-

Search Exact

Search with exact search query. -top-

SafeSearch

Search results without any adult sites (or less adult sites) . -top-

Relevance Filter / Date*for groups only

This filters bogus info /links/ websites in WWW search.

If you uncheck this option for searching in groups it shows the results sorted by date. -top-

Search in this language only

Choose between one of the 27 languages to search in.  Contains almost all languages and some Google humour like: The Swedish chef and hackers language. -top-

Image Options

Search advanced in images: By choosing the File type, Size and coloration -top-

Use raw Google mode

This lets you see the results with only the titles. -top-

Time Search options:

Search in groups between now and:  Works for search in groups only: Return messages posted at a timeframe.

Return webpage updated in the: Shows results with the latest updated website. -top-

Page output

You can change the number of results which will be displayed (10,25,50 or 100) in the browser window. Default is 10 -top-

SearchTool Options:

Result Language Output

Choose one of the 66 result languages. Set the Google resultpage, messages, and buttons to display in your selected language -top-

History

Clear History: Clears all search queries.

Don't save history: Enable this if you dont want to keep a history when you close the tool.-top-

Start-up with windows

Very handy if you like to start the GoogleSearchTool up when windows starts. -top-

Always on top

With this enabled the tool stays on top of the result window. -top-

Hide on search

Hides the searchtool after you enter a search query. -top-

Transparency

If you have windows 2000 or Windows XP you maybe like to use the transparency option. Users of other platforms do not see this option. -top-

Style

There are 3 styles.. The normal border style, the toolwindow style and the skinny syle. You can also customize the tool colors. -top-

Enable Custom browser

With this option you would be able to use the SearchTool with your Custom browser.

First pick a browser from the dropdown list.

Then enter the Path to your browser. Example: C:\program files\Myie2\myie2.exe.

You can try to detect your browsers path by clicking on the button with >> on it. The Filepopup should apear, browse to the folder/directory of the custom browser and pick out the browsers startup executable.

Now if you do a search with the SearchTool your custom browser displays the results.

Be sure to pick the right name from the Dropdownbox or the tool could give you strange results.. -top-

Enable Splash screen

This would enable/disable the splash screen at startup -top-

Auto check for update

This allows the tool to check for an update. -top-

SearchTool Language

This option lets you pick a different language. If your language is not available check the website to see if it is available in your language. It is possibel to customize it for you language... -top-

Enable Counter

This will count your search hits. You can view them in the about. Hits will be send to the GGSearch server when you do your first search action. When you go to the GGSearch website you can view the total hits made by all SearchTools. Your own hits will be viewable in the About. -top-

Theme

Change the theme to see different icons. You can also make a custom theme in the \skins\custom installation directory. Look on the website howto make a theme yourself. -top-

Tip:

The SearchTool uses Mouse hints to help you on your way ;) Hints show up in the status bar. -top-

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