Thought I'd share this cool tip with all of you; Google Chrome search engines.

 

For this to work, you obviously must use the Google's internet browser, Chrome. You can download it here: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/landing_chrome.html?hl=en

Don't worry about viruses, Google is a very reliable source.

 

Once you've downloaded Google Chrome, access a website that you search on regularly and want to make a search engine for. Once you've accessed that website and searched for something, copy the URL-address.

 

Right-click in the URL-address and click on 'Edit search engines ...' and 'Add...'. Google will ask you to name the search engine, make a search word and paste the URL-address. Let's use Yahoo as an example; if you've searched for 'ok' on the British Yahoo website, the URL-address should look something like this: http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?vc=&p=ok&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-702. As you can see, there's an 'ok' in the link.

 

Once you've named the search engine and made a search word (e.g. 'y' for quick searching), paste the URL-address and change 'ok' to '%s' and finally, click 'OK'. Now, open a new tab and type 'y', hit the 'tab'-button and type away.

 

This can be done with RuneScape sites, as well, so go ahead and experiment with it!

 

Hoped this was useful, feedback (i.e. constructive), as always, is appreciated.

 

 

(This could be related to RuneScape, so I'm not sure whether it's in the right category and I have no idea how to remove/move threads, etc. lol - yes, I'm a TIF-noob)

Firefox also does this. Bookmark any search box, add a keyword, type keyword in address bar+space+search term.

Firefox also does this. Bookmark any search box, add a keyword, type keyword in address bar+space+search term.

Cool, didn't know. Feedback, though? Is this understable/simple?

Firefox also does this. Bookmark any search box, add a keyword, type keyword in address bar+space+search term.

Cool, didn't know. Feedback, though? Is this understable/simple?

 

Yeah it makes sense just fine. I'm probably not going to use it but it doesn't mean others won't. When I want to search a site I just type the site and keyword and then it does a google search, which gives me what I want anyways (for example I would just type "imdb iron man 2", and the IMDb page for Iron Man 2 would be the first google search result). If it gives lots of stuff I don't want then I type site:sitename then keyword and it does a google search of only that site. If it still doesn't find it then I might go to the site and search, but generally I just say screw it and find info elsewhere.

Kinda sucks that this belongs to this section, as it gets less views and is a great tip... oh, well.