Its420 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Sorted it. They needed to be installed in "/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scribb|e Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 Yeah, Arnie, you missed out the space between '*.xml' and the rest of the command line. As Its420 mentioned, Firefox may have changed the location where it stores it's search plugins, so this is the updated version: sudo mv *.xml /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins Note the space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnold Layne Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Returs... mxxx@mxxx-laptop:~$ sudo mv 524uk420.xml /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins mv: cannot stat `524uk420.xml': No such file or directory mxxx@mxxx-laptop:~$ I think my pain-meds are now befuddling me and I may well be missing the obvious? So, I have downloaded and extracted, and have "524uk420.xml" sat on my desktop. I open Terminal and type ... what exactly, now? Just the mv 524uk420.xml command? Or do I need to go back and do the cd bit again.... Aaargh, I am drowning in strange linguistics I am..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Its420 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 (edited) Where did the 524 come from arnold? The files i got from the first post in this thread were "Uk420.xml" and "Uk420_scroogle_ssl.xml" so unless you've renamed them, you're adding stuff you dont need! You need to cd to where ever you extracted them to, then do the command scribb|e posted above. Obviously replacing the * for one of the two filenames above. Assuming you extracted them to your desktop: cd Desktop sudo mv uk420.xml /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins sudo mv uk420_scroogle_ssl.xml /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins Edited January 21, 2010 by Its420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuffinMan Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 grabbed the ssl version. nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnold Layne Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) Sorted! At last. Fook knows what went down yesterday, because I've done exactly the same thing today and it worked/works a charm Thanks Scribble for the effort you've put into this, and for helping me get it sorted; thanks too to you, Its420 Once again, Uk420 drags me out of the darkness of confusion and into the light of understanding Edited January 22, 2010 by Arnold Layne Shabby spelling, Tst Tst! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pot Luck Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Firefox doesn't work on my PC But Chrome now supports extensions Hint Hint . T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyvappy Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 This fantastic search tool has gone odd,it says this: July 1, 2010: Here we go again... We regret to announce that our Google scraper may have to be permanently retired, thanks to a change at Google. It depends on whether Google is willing to restore the simple interface that we've been scraping since Scroogle started five years ago. Actually, we've been using that interface for scraping since Google-Watch.org began in 2002. This interface (here's a sample from years ago) was remarkably stable all that time. During those eight years there were only about five changes that required some programming adjustments. Also, this interface was available at every Google data center in exactly the same form, which allowed us to use 700 IP addresses for Google. That interface was at www.google.com/ie but on May 10, 2010 they took it down and inserted a redirect to /toolbar/ie8/sidebar.html. It used to have a search box, and the results it showed were generic during that entire time. It didn't show the snippets unless you moused-over the links it produced (they were there for our program, so that was okay), and it has never had any ads. Our impression was that these results were from Google's basic algorithms, and that extra features and ads were added on top of these generic results. Three years ago Google launched "Universal Search," which meant that they added results from other Google services on their pages. But this simple interface we were using was not affected at all. It is not possible to continue Scroogle unless we have a simple interface that is stable. Google's main consumer-oriented interface that they want everyone to use is too complex, too bloated, and changes too frequently, to make our scraping operation possible. After a lot of suggestions from Scroogle users, and a fair amount of publicity, we found a fix and Scroogle was back in 24 hours. This fix was to insert an extra parameter, &output=ie, into the search terms that were relayed to Google. The extra parameter recovered the same interface that we thought was gone forever. Now it seems like it actually might be gone forever. Late on June 30, 2010, the results produced while using this parameter began to shift to the usual busy Google interface with ads and a left-margin sidebar. Scroogle users saw a Scroogle page that said, "Google returned no results for this search," when in fact Google returned results but our scraper was unable to deal with them. Over the next few days we will attempt to contact Google and determine whether the old interface is gone as a matter of policy at Google, or if they simply have it hidden somewhere and will tell us where it is so that we can continue to use it. Thank you for your support during these past five years. Check back in a week or so; if we don't hear from Google by next week, I think we can all assume that Google would rather have no Scroogle, and no privacy for searchers. — Daniel Brandt, Public Information Research, scroogle AT lavabit.com anyone else or is it just my end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossom Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 I've just noticed this too! Any ideas on how to fix it??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokinterror Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Is this broken ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madgiz Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 It is possible to get the same results by prefixing your search term on google with site:uk420.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mullen Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Think so... Mrm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyleridedog Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Her is the ssl file if anyone needs it, done a reinstall and was sweating. hxxp://www.2shared.com/document/2weUPBd6/uk420_scroogle_ssl.html replace the thing with the thing Place it in program files\mozilla\mozilla firefox\searchplugins cant live without it cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbal Kint Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Her is the ssl file if anyone needs it, done a reinstall and was sweating. hxxp://www.2shared.com/document/2weUPBd6/uk420_scroogle_ssl.html replace the thing with the thing Place it in program files\mozilla\mozilla firefox\searchplugins cant live without it cheers So I downloaded this ssl version because links on first page are not working. Your 2shared link is the only functional in this tread. I did everything right, it's not working man. UK420 search engine appears in my toolbar but it wont browse, all I get:"Server not found" page. Tried to fix it, nada. I found some reading about scroogle being shout down, not working, if it's about that, regular version of UK420 search engine please(?), maybe that one will work. Thnx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmer Fett Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 ^^^What he/ she said^^^^ Could we have a re-up of the original file by any chance?, I guess the scroogle one won't work but what about the other one? does that still work. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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