Opera Tips & Tricks: Search

December 9, 2009 · by Aleksander Aas

In this new installment, we want to show you how to pull of the time-saving and awesome tricks that make an Opera "power user".

Let's start off with searching by using the address bar. Did you know that by typing in "g [keyword]" in your address bar, you search for that keyword in Google? We call this type of search a "G-Space" search. Just pretend your address bar is the Google search box, and you are good to go. Any search phrase like "site:www.opera.com [keyword]" is supported, so play around with it.

This tip should save you valuable time, each and every time you do a search!

Use other search engines? Opera has several built-in searches, but you can also create your own. Use this snappy guide, and make your personal custom search!

Find a search box like the one on www.google.com. Right-click inside the search field, and select "Create Search".
Type in your keyword for this new search. For example this would be where "g" is the keyword for Google searches.
Click "OK" and you are done!

Readers' comments 23

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ZimakWednesday, December 9, 2009 3:12:23 PM
o_0

time you realized it
j-p-jWednesday, December 9, 2009 3:18:12 PM
http://twitter.com/operatips
PhaniWednesday, December 9, 2009 3:41:03 PM
I think it should be mentioned that if we are searching for multiple words, the prefix "g" can be omitted. the "g" is necessary only when searching for a single word.
KaskaMatejWednesday, December 9, 2009 3:55:31 PM
http://operawiki.info/OmniBar/show?time=2009-04-15+07%3A08%3A00
aint fastest, but it is
Charles SchlossWednesday, December 9, 2009 4:49:20 PM
Is there a reason why I have 26 custom searches then

An Opera trick that I found:
http://my.opera.com/Chas4/blog/2008/12/12/an-opera-trick
Martin RauscherWednesday, December 9, 2009 5:12:55 PM
Originally posted by lwiczek:

wow, briliant... but could you finally add automatic search with default engine even for one-word queries? Please... (ATM it works only with >= two words or if we use search engine keywords (eg. "g" )

And HOW exactly would you then access localhost? I don't want to write "http://localhost"...
And you only have to hit ARROW-UP after your word and you get to the default search, so it isn't that overhead...
techlawsamWednesday, December 9, 2009 5:28:21 PM
uhhhh how about "B-Space" for Bing searching?

but again yes I love this feature saves superb amount of time!
АндрійWednesday, December 9, 2009 8:03:43 PM
Баяны с бородой в массы!!!
Daniel HendrycksWednesday, December 9, 2009 9:53:30 PM

Originally posted by samMD:

uhhhh how about "B-Space" for Bing searching?

Sam, please. They do not make money off of it. Why would they advertise a site that blocks them too? (Maps)
Please request such things when (if) they make money off it it.

This is one of the things that I wanted to say for a while.
Charles SchlossWednesday, December 9, 2009 10:05:04 PM
This search trick can also be done on youtube and some other sites
Taufiq AhmedThursday, December 10, 2009 11:26:05 AM
yeah, using it from long time.
Opera is really a powerUser browser choice.
there are tons of other speedy tricks too in Opera.
RobertThursday, December 10, 2009 2:14:08 PM
Thank you so much!!!

If you go into preferences on the Search tab, you'll find the different letters that call for different searches.

...just another reason I love Opera and have for years.

Sometimes with everything else that's just plain and simply wonderful about Opera, it just takes someone to remind us of what's already there.

Thanks again, mate.
Joshua FanThursday, December 10, 2009 2:43:59 PM
Set the opera:config HostName Lookup Address to "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I" + make the same your default search to go straight to the first google search result of anything you type like Firefox does.
Crysta T. LaceyThursday, December 10, 2009 11:18:40 PM
Hi,
Thanks for the G tip. .... Crysta
nahtanoj999Friday, December 11, 2009 12:41:56 AM
It shows the kind of annoying interface bug that we've had in all the 10.1 builds.
YongShunSunday, December 13, 2009 1:44:33 PM
I always used this, but I hate the fact that it always leaves an entry on my URL bar.
Nicolas ChevallierMonday, December 14, 2009 4:25:12 PM
Thanks for the tips
PurdiMonday, December 14, 2009 6:45:05 PM
Originally posted by Zimak:

time you realized it

Are you crazy? Just because it's posted now doesn't mean that they just found out about it! Quit trolling
Obinna luckyMonday, December 14, 2009 8:43:03 PM
Jeeez,opera is so amazing,it has lots of features in it.i love it!sing out.
Игорь КомышевTuesday, December 15, 2009 2:47:13 PM
Супер!
vipin kumarSunday, October 24, 2010 2:10:10 AM
This trick can be used to

1.Translate Pages directly from address bar
2.Convert youtube videos to mp3
3.Shorten URL's!!

Custom search is just great!!
BirdthunderSaturday, January 22, 2011 6:43:40 PM
thanks info
P.J. FrayneThursday, October 13, 2011 12:59:42 PM
The only improvement on this would be to make the URL bar like Chrome's omnibox...