Currently you can only select "Google" in order to search the internet using the internet search applet on the home screen. Does anybody know how to add more website? I would love to be able to select Wikipedia or IMDB. But there doesn't seem to be an options I can change in the applet menu.

A fan of Firefox/Opera I see. That feature would be great to have, but as far as I know, there's no way to add other engines.

Here that Nokia? We want more search bar options. This shouldn't be too hard to do.

I think it is already possible with this applet. If you click on the Google icon you will notice that it is a pull-down menu (But it only contains 1 item). So they probably just didn't finish the setting menu for this applet, and decided to add it in any event.
So we just need to know where these options are saved (probably some config file)
I think they shouldn't have added these applets this way. The google search applet isn't much more usefull than a link to the google site. Also the "web link" applet isn't very usefull. Only for promotion is it usefull.
If you want a bookmark then you use the bookmark list, if you want to use a page as a home page you just alter that setting.

I would like a applet where I could select a contact from my phone and type in a SMS text message and send.
Or a plugin for Gaim or another (less resource intensive) MSN client, that displays who is online.

There is the phonelink app, which does handle this. I suppose it shouldn't be too hard to convert that into an applet (just change the base framework calls, I do believe).

I'd try, but I can't even get phonelink to work properly with my phone (cingular's 2125 WM5).

It is possible to add additional search engines to the applet if you have root access to your Nokia 770. The configuration files for the search applet are located under /usr/local/mis.

For example, for Google it looks like this:

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<search name="Google"
icon="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/qgn_indi_search_google.png"
action="http://www.google.com/search"
user-input="q">
<input name="btnG" value="Search"/>
<input name="hl" value="en"/>
<input name="safe" value="medium"/>
<input name="client" value="ms-nokia-wifi"/>
</search>
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The coloured parts refer to the search URL as follows:
http://www.google.com/search?q=<search-string>&btnG=Search&hl=en&safe=medium&client=ms-nokia-wifi

In analogy to this format I made up a configuration file for Wikipedia:

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<search name="Wikipedia"
icon="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/qgn_indi_search_wikipedia.png"
action="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml"
user-input="search">
<input name="go" value="Go"/>
</search>
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Save this file as wikipedia-search.xml under /usr/local/mis and reboot your device. And you're done.

BTW: The Wikipedia icon was already there on my Nokia 770. Seemingly, the developers at Nokia were close to adding the Wikipedia search engine.

Of course, the path has to be "/usr/share/mis", not "/usr/local/mis".

Sorry for the mistake.

thanks!! it works perfectly!!

I just want to add the IMDB also. (I'm going to experiment with that, when I have more time)
The idea is the same as the search engines bar in Firefox. somebody have an idea what the urls are that these engines use. If so, then maybe we could port all of them to this internet search applet. that would be cool!

I'm a real newb here. I'm logged in as root with ssh, but how to I save the file to add the wikipedia search bar? I'm using windows fyi I have saved the file to the 770 but when I try to move it to /usr/share/mis it won't let me. I added root to my file manager and I am tryong to move it that way. any help please

Never mind I have figured it out, thanx for info that this could be done. Does anyone know where I can get a listing of the search addresses so I can make more of these?

If you need more addresses you can check out the Mozilla site:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/