Search Engine keyword.url, URL

How would I figure out what the search engine's URL is if I wanted to add it to the keyword.url? I know the main search engine's URL's for keyword.url, but what if I wanted to use another search engine in the awesome bar that isn't popular?

You can right-click the search bar on the page and use add a keyword for this search to create a bookmark for that particular search engine to see its URL.
Then you can use that URL without the %s parameter for the keyword.URL pref (reorder the GET parameter is the query parameter is not the last).
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.URL
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/List_of_keyword_searches

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