Editing search entries in Safari

I know that we can edit when we email or text if we press and hold our finger until the "copy, select, select all" appears.  Can we do the same thing for when we are typing in keywords for searching the internet?  What if we are searching a long name and misspelled it or it's such a huge misspelling that the search engine won't recognize it and won't give us similar options to click on?  I tried doing this to no avail.  Is the edit feature possible or not?  Thank you in advance.

I found the answer! If you open the file /Users/YourUser/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist you'll find a list of the banned sites, and you can delete from the list. That way the site will apear again on the Top Sites window.
Cheers,
Helvecio

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