Originally posted by Gingerbread-Man:

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http://[PUT THE SERVER NAME YOU PUT IN HOSTS THERE, WHATEVER IT IS I DONT CARE]/do/search?cmd=process_search&language=english&enginecount=1&cat=web&query=%s

Originally posted by Gingerbread-Man:

Originally posted by sipertruk:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx google.com

Replace "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" by an ip address to your favorite engine

:doh:

1. That would break a large number of Google services, including those on non-Google sites that don't require a Google account (e.g. Recaptcha).

2. It would be nonsensical anyway. Search query formats differ between engines. StartPage and Ixquick don't even use GET (like Google); they use POST.

You failed to understand the post.
I didn't say to use google.com in hosts at all cost.
I didn't say to use the whole query from one server with another, just to replace the server name.
Did you even read it beside what you quote ?
The only nonsense is brought by the bug which allow only a few server names and forbid all others for the default engine.

If you too are addicted to opera and search engines you can do something like this example for windows, for other os find the "hosts" file there "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)".
Put that at the end of "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" :

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx google.com

Replace "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" by an ip address to your favorite engine, if you don't know how to find and ip address from a server name you can use that online tool : http://www.webdnstools.com/dnstools/dns-lookup first tool on the left "Look up DNS Entries".
You could also replace "google.com" by anything else that can be put as default like bing or ixquick.
And put "google.com" or whatever you used as the server name in the url of the default search engine in your opera's settings.