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The Search the Web action has Keyboard Maestro ask you for a search term and then searches a specified web site (by default Google).

When you run the action an input window appears on screen containing placeholder or default text. Type your search term into the input window and press Return. Keyboard Maestro opens the default browser and searches for the search term. Results are displayed in the default browser.

Enter a Title for the action in the Title text area. By default Keyboard Maestro fills the title area for you with the words: Search the web with Google.

Enter a search string in the URL text area. By default Keyboard Maestro searches Google and fills the URL text area for you with the string: http:⁄⁄www.google.com/search?q=%Search%.

Enter any default text to be used in the Default area. If you don’t enter any text here then the input window displays the title in grey. Anything you type replaces everything displayed in gray. If you enter default text then that is displayed in the input window and selected. To replace the text just start typing or to add to it press the left or right cursor arrow key to move to the start or end and add further text.

Web Search Engines

SiteURL
Dogpilehttp://www.dogpile.com/search/web?q=%Search%
DuckDuckGohttp://duckduckgo.com/?q=%Search%
DuckDuckGo: !Bangshttps://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=%Search%
Startpagehttp://startpage.com/do/search?language=english&query=%Search%
Startpage: Past dayhttp://startpage.com/do/search?language=english&query=%Search%&with_date=d
Startpage: Past monthhttp://startpage.com/do/search?language=english&query=%Search%&with_date=m
Startpage: Past weekhttp://startpage.com/do/search?language=english&query=%Search%&with_date=w
Startpage: Past yearhttp://startpage.com/do/search?language=english&query=%Search%&with_date=y
Binghttp://www.bing.com/search?q=%Search%
Bing: Imageshttp://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%Search%
Googlehttp://www.google.com/search?q=%Search%
Google: Exact stringhttp://www.google.com/search?q=%22%Search%%22
Google: Imageshttps://www.google.com.au/search?tbm=isch&q=%Search%
Google: Web cachehttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:%Search%
Google: Groupshttp://groups.google.com/groups?q=%Search%
Youtubehttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%Search%

Keyboard Maestro

Keyboard Maestro Forumhttps://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/search?q=%Search%
Keyboard Maestro Wikihttps://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/Home_Page?do=search&id=%Search%
SiteURL
Open Street Maphttp://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=%Search%&polygon=1&viewbox=
Apple Mapshttp://maps.apple.com/?q=%Search%
Bing Mapshttp://www.bing.com/maps/?where=%Search%
Google Mapshttp://maps.google.com/maps?q=%Search%

Host info

SiteURL
Network-Toolshttp://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=express&host=%Search%
Website subpages listhttp://www.sousites.com/%Search%

Dictionaries

SiteURL
Wiktionaryhttp://en.wiktionary.org/?search=%Search%
Urban dictionaryhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%Search%

Translation

SiteURL
IATE: English to anyhttp://iate.europa.eu/SearchByQuery.do?method=search&valid=Search+&sourceLanguage=en&targetLanguages=s&domain=0&typeOfSearch=s&request=&query=%Search%
IATE: German to Englishhttp://iate.europa.eu/SearchByQuery.do?method=search&valid=Search+&sourceLanguage=de&targetLanguages=en&domain=0&typeOfSearch=s&request=&query=%Search%
Linguee: English/Germanhttp://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=%Search%
Linguee: English/Frenchhttp://www.linguee.com/english-french/search?source=auto&query=%Search%
Linguee: English/Spanishhttp://www.linguee.com/english-spanish/search?source=auto&query=%Search%
Leo: English/Germanhttp://dict.leo.org/ende/index_de.html#/search=%Search%&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=expert&multiwordShowSingle=off
Bing translator (any to English)http://www.bing.com/translator/?from=au&to=en&text=%Search%
Bing webpage translator (any to English)http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?ref=Internal&a=%Search%
Google translator (any to English)https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/%Search%
Google webpage translator (any to English)http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=auto&tl=en&u=%Search%
Google translator (any to English)https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/%Search%
LibreTranslate (any to English)https://libretranslate.com/?source=auto&target=en&q=%Search%

References

SiteURL
Wolfram Alphahttp://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%Search%
StackExchange (all)http://stackexchange.com/search?q=%Search%
StackOverflowhttp://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%Search%
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%Search%
IMDBhttp://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%Search%
Vim Wikihttp://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=%Search%&fulltext=Search
CSS Trickshttps://css-tricks.com/search-results/?q=%Search%
WordPress pluginshttps://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=%Search%

Games

SiteURL
Gamespothttp://www.gamespot.com/search/?q=%Search%&indices%5B%5D=article&indices%5B%5D=review&indices%5B%5D=game
Steamprices/saleshttps://www.steamprices.com/us/search/?q=%Search%&p=1
Steamprices/sales IIhttp://steamsales.rhekua.com/search.php?term=%Search%
Kerbal Space Program Wikihttp://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?search=%Search%

iTunes & Mac App Store

SiteURL
Mac App Storemacappstore://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?q=%Search%
iTunesitms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?term=%Search%
iTunes: Artistitms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?artistTerm=%Search%
iTunes: Songitms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?songTerm=%Search%
Appshopperhttp://appshopper.com/search?search=%Search%
SiteURL
Apple Discussionshttps://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?q=%Search%
Ask Differenthttps://apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=%Search%
Macupdatehttp://www.macupdate.com/find/mac/%Search%
MacOSXHintshttp://www.macosxhints.com/search.php?query=%Search%&type=stories&mode=search&keyType=all

Shops

SiteURL
Amazonhttps://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%Search%
Ebayhttp://www.ebay.com/sch/%Search%

Local (URL schemes)

SiteURL
Man pagesx-man-page://%Search%
Dashdash://%Search%
Evernoteevernote://search/%Search%

German

Amazon.dehttps://www.amazon.de/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords==%Search%
Dictionaryhttps://www.duden.de/suchen/dudenonline/%Search%
Wikipediahttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%Search%