Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown
by zorbo on Thursday March 07, 2013 @03:40AM
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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.
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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.