More hits with search engines

[Anonymosity]

How would I alter search plugins other than Google to get 100 results per page instead of 10? Someone told me how to do that to Google search, and I could apply that to the search plugin that Opera generates for it, but different plugins use different syntax, and the trick does not work with others. The ones I want to change are Start Page and Clusty.

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[Don_HH2K]

If you can find the URL that the search plugin uses to actually perform Google searches, appending &num=100 to the end of the URL will do it.

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[Anonymosity]

If you can find the URL that the search plugin uses to actually perform Google searches, appending &num=100 to the end of the URL will do it.

I do not think that works with Start Page. I tried doing that with the URL, but Start Page disappeared from the list of search plugins. I deleted search.json and search.sqlite from the profile afterward to reset the search parameters.
First I tried:

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<os:Url type="text/html" method="POST" template="http://us2.startpage.com/do/metasearch.pl?&num=100">

Then:

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<os:Url type="text/html" method="POST" template="http://us2.startpage.com&num=100/do/metasearch.pl?">

Finally:

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<os:Url type="text/html" method="POST" template="http://us2.startpage.com/do/&num=100metasearch.pl?">

None worked.

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[Don_HH2K]

Sorry, I assumed you were talking about Google in particular.

I had a look at StartPage's website. Apparently their number of results is controlled by a cookie, but they also have a perference URL generator in the "My Settings" category that you might want to look into.

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[Anonymosity]

Sorry, I assumed you were talking about Google in particular.

I had a look at StartPage's website. Apparently their number of results is controlled by a cookie, but they also have a perference URL generator in the "My Settings" category that you might want to look into.

I did say "other than Google". Either way you do that setup with Start Page, you get what amounts to a cookie. If you use the Generate URL option, you get a URL with an ID number attached to it, which looks to me pretty much like a cookie ID.

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[Anonymosity]

I thought people might be interested that I found answers to both questions:
To get more hits with Clusty:

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http://clusty.com/search?query=%s&v:state=root%7Croot-0-100

with Start Page:

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address:
http://www.startpage.com/do/metasearch.pl
query string:
cat=web&cmd=process_search&language=english_uk&engine0=v1all&prfh=num_of_resultsEEE100N1N&ff=&query=%s

UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.60