23.11.09
How To Use Google Chrome Search Engines
I'm using Google Chrome for about a year now. Besides the obvious advantages of speed, clearness and lightness, the best thing I like in Google Chrome is the way it handles search engines.
Sadly, the small matter I'm going to explain isn't well realized by many. I hope I will change it a bit.
If you configure Chrome right, you can search in any site you like faster than in any other browser. All you need to do is to hit ALT+D while browsing to get to the address bar, type two or three letters that represent your search site (e.g. "yt" for YouTube), type space, your search term, and Enter. You get your results.
Some more examples, to make it clear: When I want to check the quality of a movie, I will probably hit ALT+D, type "imdb movie name", and later perhaps "yt movie name trailer". If I want to search for subtitles, all I need is to type in the address bar "sc movie name" (www.SubCenter.org). To go to an article in Wikipedia I just type "we Article Name" ('we' stands for Wikipedia English). For Hebrew Wikipedia I will type "וק שם ערך". You get the point.
Getting it done is easy. If your search site is popular enough, just open the site and go to the Search Engines Manager (ALT+D, Menu Key [the key between WinKey and Ctrl], "Edit search engines..."), you will find it there. All you need to do is to define a new keyword for it, and probably a better name.
On the other hand, if Chrome doesn't recognize your site, things are getting a bit trickier. In your search site, search for a simple term like "hello". Now copy the URL, and replace the simple term with %s. Copy the URL to the Search Engines Manager, assign a keyword (two-three letters), a good name and you're done.
This is how I use Google Chrome. To give you a feeling of how useful this feature is, here are my search engines:
For some cases, I use Hebrew keywords to search for terms in Hebrew, for convenient.