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Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by nowarninglabel on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @10:42PM (#5335928)
Then why don't you just search via Google? "site:amazon.com bank of bob" or even most of the time you can just add the word amazon to your search query "amazon bank of bob" and I get exactly what I'm searching for.

To me you haven't made any case at all why others should have to suffer so you can have auto-focus on Amazon when your needs are already met elsewhere.

Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by Legion on Thursday March 07, 2013 @12:02AM (#5336197)
Things like this are why I have DuckDuckGo as my browser's default search engine.

"!amazon thingamabob" (or just "!a thingamabob").

Way more convenient than going to the homepage and worrying about search auto-focus.

Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by jamesjporter on Thursday March 07, 2013 @12:48AM (#5336335)
My favorite thing about DDG is that at this point there are so many bang syntaxes defined that if I don't know the syntax for something, I can often just guess and half the time I get it right!
Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by mixmastamyk on Thursday March 07, 2013 @01:10AM (#5336394)
Firefox keyword search is more direct, though you have to define them yourself. See my comment above.