Chrome automatically recognizes searches on sites, so that you can just type "ama[TAB]" in de URL bar, and it will give you a site-specific search straight in the URL bar (provided that "ama" auto-completes to "amazon.com" for you, naturally). This works for basically every site you've ever visited that has search functionality. It's pretty decent.
Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown
by mixmastamyk on Thursday March 07, 2013 @03:09PM
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That's interesting, though I only care about a few sites, and prefer the brevity of the ff keywords.
Sounds like the two could complement each other, like aliases and completion in a shell.
You can rename the search engine abbreviations as you like.
I have "w" for wikipedia, "y" for youtube, "gm" for google maps, etc...
This is THE feature of Chrome that I use constantly every day. It saves 5-10 seconds on each search you do every day. It adds up.
"a foo" to search on amazon, "g foo" google, "i foo" imdb, "m foo" google maps, "w foo" wikipedia, "u foo" urbandictionary, etc... I have more but they are not public sites.