Searching the Web using Konqueror is very easy. Konqueror defines over 70 search filters for you, all with a specific shortcut. To search for a certain topic on the Internet, enter the shortcut and the keyword separated by a colon. The relevant page containing the search results is then displayed.

To see the already definied shortcuts, go to ‘Settings’+‘Configure Konqueror’. In the dialog box that appears, select ‘Web Shortcuts’. Now you can see the names of the search providers and the shortcuts. Konqueror definies lots of search filters: the “classical” search engines, like Google, Yahoo, and Lycos, and a number of filters for less common purposes, like an acronym database, the Internet movie database, or KDE application searches.

If you do not find your preferred search engine here, easily define a new one. For example, to search our support database for some interesting articles, normally go to http://portal.suse.com/, find the search page, and enter your query. This can be simplified by using shortcuts. In the above dialog box, select ‘New’ and give your shortcut a name in ‘Search provider name’. Enter your abbreviations in ‘URI shortcuts’. There can more than one, separated by commas. The important text field is ‘Search URI’. Pressing Shift-F1 and clicking in the field opens a small help. The search query is specified as \{@}. The challenge is inserting this at the correct position. In this case, the settings for the SUSE support database looks like this: ‘Search provider name’ is SUSE Support Database, ‘Search URI’ is (one line) https://portal.suse.com/PM/page/search.pm? q=\{@}&t=optionSdbKeywords&m=25&l=en&x=true, and ‘URI shortcuts’ is sdb_en.

After approving with ‘Ok’ two times, enter your query in Konqueror's location bar, for example, sdb_en:kernel. The result is displayed in the current window.