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It seems that everyone has Google search provider for GNOME Shell by default. But I don't! In /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers I only have 3 search providers: gnome-contacts, gnome-documents and nautilus search provider (which is not working, why?).

How can I add Google search? I also like to add Zeitgeist search. That's a thing I miss about Unity

(GNOME 3.6)

Eliah Kagan
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lfk
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Search buttons for Google and Wikipedia were present in the Activities Overview in earlier versions of GNOME Shell, but it wasn't an actual search provider and didn't integrate very well.

You can try a Wikipedia search provider from https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/512/wikipedia-search-provider/

I haven't seen a Google search provider yet.

Jeremy Bicha
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Create a new file, called google.xml and paste this google search lense code for gnome-shell into it. (I don't know about the Zeitgeist search, sorry!)

Save the .xml file and put it in: (root access is required!)

/usr/share/gnome-shell/search_providers

Now you successfully added the "google search lense" in gnome-shell!

v2r
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  • Does anybody know whether a similar path works per user? – kelunik Jun 04 '18 at 08:51
  • Unfortunately, the answer there didn't work for me. I created google.xml file, pasted the source code from the link, copied it to the /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers and rebooted. – Alexey Chernov Apr 16 '19 at 09:29
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If someone will search for this question: GNOME Web has search provider for any website. Unfortunately other browsers don't

Никита Кравец
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  • This is not an appropriate answer to the question. Please explain how to add Google search engine or Zeitgeist, or explain that this is not something that can be done. – Gordster Nov 02 '20 at 19:14