FindWhiz

Tell search
what you
mean.

A phrase that stays together. A site you trust. A file type you need. Build one Yahoo query from the fields you choose.

Add to Firefox

This addon requests permission to update your default search engine to Yahoo.

Try the search builder

Local sample

An interactive illustration. The addon puts extra fields in Filters. Time and region use Yahoo options that may change.

No accountSaved in FirefoxSearches go directly to Yahoo

Same topic.
More to go on.

Plain keywords name the subject. A built query adds the phrase and file type you were looking for. Yahoo decides how to interpret it.

Plain search

tabby cat care

The topic, with no phrase or file type attached.

Built with FindWhiz

tabby cat care "long haired tabby" filetype:pdf

Keep the phrase together and ask for PDF results.

Keep what helps.
Leave the rest out.

The Search, Presets, Filters and Settings views each have a job. In Filters, every card can be switched off or reordered. Visible order sets query order.

  1. 01

    Keep a phrase or add alternatives

    An exact phrase keeps words together. Comma separated alternatives become an OR group.

    "long haired tabby"(tabby OR calico)
  2. 02

    Leave out words

    Enter unwanted words with spaces between them. FindWhiz adds the exclusion sign for each one.

    kittens→-kittens
  3. 03

    Choose a site and file type

    Use a site chip or your own domain. A file type asks for a format such as PDF or DOCX.

    site:wikipedia.orgfiletype:pdf
  4. 04

    Look in a title or address

    Title words and URL words add their own operators. Empty fields add nothing.

    intitle:tabbyinurl:care
See the views and every field

Keep a search
you want again.

Save up to 20 named forms as saved presets. Each keeps the fields, card order, enabled filters, time and region together.

Load a form to edit it, run it on Yahoo, or delete it. Saving with the same name replaces it. Presets stay until you delete them, even with remembering off.

Your saved searches stay in Firefox on your device.

A little more
room to work.

Open the wider builder from the popup. Your current form goes with it, even when remembering is off.

Search stays on the left. Presets and Filters sit beside it on a wide screen.

FindWhiz builder
FindWhiz

Saved searches

Tabby reading listRun · Load · Delete

Filters

Exact phraselong haired tabby
File typepdf
Illustration of the full page builder. The form carries over locally, with no search text in its URL.

Start where the words are.

Select tabby cat care on a page.

CopySearch with FindWhiz

Right click selected text

The "Search with FindWhiz" menu fills Keywords in the wider builder. The contextMenus permission enables this shortcut. Text reaches Yahoo only when you press Search.

fwtabby cat care

Use the address bar

Type fw, a space and your text for a plain Yahoo search. Submit without text to open the builder. It follows your result tab setting.

Your form stays here.
Your search goes to Yahoo.

FindWhiz receives no search queries or extension reports. Remembered fields, saved presets and custom site chips stay in Firefox storage.

Read what leaves the browser
Your deviceFields · Presets · Site chipsBuilt and saved in Firefox

Only when you choose Search

Yahoo resultsYahoo receives the query

With Firefox's optional data setting on, status flags may update the eligible install page. These stay in the browser. Yahoo does not document the time and region options, and they may change.

Build your next search.

Choose the fields. Check the preview. Open the results.

Add FindWhiz to Firefox