You cannot use a colon (:), a dot (.) or a slash (/) in an autosearch argument. These characters are used to distinguish an autosearch argument from a normal URL.
You can disable the autosearch feature if you don't like it.
Some example URLs for common search engines:
http://www.google.com.au/search?&q=%s
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AltaVista | http://www.altavista.com/web/results?&q=%s
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Yahoo! | http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%s
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Lycos | http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?loc=searchbox&query=%s
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Sensis | http://www.sensis.com.au/search.do?&find=qwerty
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You can easily find the URL for your favourite search engine if it isn't
listed above. Just do a search with the engine, then copy the URL of the
resulting page. Locate the search string you entered, it should appear
somewhere in the URL. Replace this search string by "%s
"
(without quotes).