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Search Specific Mac Sites with Google
Besides helping Internet users to search for useful information online, Google also provides search for specific Mac sites to assist Mac users in gathering more Mac related information.
As far as I know, there are two ways to perform search on specific Mac sites.
Adding Prefix to Search Keyword
By prefixing 'Mac' to your keyword search, there is a high chance to get returned results related to Mac. For example, to search for useful Mac keyboard shortcuts, you can use this search keyword: 'Mac Keyboard Shortcut'.
Searching with Google for Mac
To narrow down your scope on Mac specific sites, you can always use Google for Mac. Inside this page, you will see the search button labeled as 'Search Mac Sites' instead of usual 'Google Search'.
However, I believe some of us may want to incorporate this Mac specific search with Safari search box. The rest of this article will explain this.
Search for Word in Text Document
Command F is the most common used keystrokes among Mac users. It can help you search for particular text in your document. But there are some of the trick you may not know before reading this article.
Search for Words Under Selection
Let's consider a worst case scenario, you have a thousands lines of words in your document and you want to find certain keyword from that text document. Usually you will just hit Command F and type in the word. It works fine, but if you do like this: Highlight part of the document and when doing the searching Command F, press Control Option.
You will notice that now Replace All button will be changed into In Selection. But it's only showing you some parts of the magic, actually it's saying like this Select All Keywords In Selection. And it will look like screenshots below.
Change Safari Default Search Engine
Nowadays, we depend on search engine to get information from around the web. I myself depend very much on search engine. Currently, Safari is using Google as its default search engine.
But here comes the issue, a setting will never satisfy the mind of several millions people surfing the web. Some of us maybe want to use Google UK as our default search engine, some maybe prefer using Yahoo!
With Inquisitor 3 installed on your Safari, you will be able to change your Safari default search engine easily.
Here are the steps you need to do :
- Download Inquisitor and follow the installation instruction
- After you've finished installing Inquisitor, relaunch your Safari for the change to take effect
- Go to Safari ▸ Preferences
- Click on Search section to modify settings for Inquisitor
- In the last option box, you should be able to choose your default search engine