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Alternatively, just add keyword searches to your browser. Here's how to do it with Firefox: https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb In Chrome, you d
by runjake 5y ago
Alternatively, just add keyword searches to your browser.
Here's how to do it with Firefox: https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb
In Chrome, you do pretty much the same in Settings->Search Engine->Manage Search Engines->Add
You'll want to use something like this, to taste:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com
I have these set up for all kinds of sites, and they're accessible straight from my local machines (because: sync)
More help for Google search operators: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
- StopDarkPattern 5y agoWait and instead I don't have some random collection of people knowing all my searches? Nooooowayyyyyyy
- esperent 5y agoAre you talking about Google?
- piaste 5y agoNo, he's talking about the OP, whose site needs to intercept all your search queries in order to provide the highly valuable service of adding "site:reddit.com" for you.
- esperent 5y agoOh, I thought he was talking about Google, who intercept all your search terms for the valuable service of providing advertising to you.
- kyleee 5y agoor directly to your operating system if using KDE
- martini333 5y agoimagine
- stavros 5y agoWait, how? Via the launcher?
- kyleee 5y agoyeah they call them web shortcuts and you can make custom ones, and customize the resulting generated URL stucture based on the text entered into krunner, it's a really nice feature in KDE https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/konqueror/konqueror/enhanced-browsing.html https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/konqueror/konqueror/enhanced...
- runjake 5y agoI actually have begun duplicating all my browser keyword searches to Alfred on macOS and Albert on Linux. I don’t even need to make sure the browser have focus now.
- riffic 5y agothis is really my favorite approach, thanks for sharing the knowledge.
- beepbooptheory 5y agoI find the Duck Duck Go !bang things to be pretty comprehensive, easy to memorize. Just leaving my default engine as ddg and can get github, archwiki, reddit, google maps, npm, hacker news search very quickly
- zikduruqe 5y agoThis. I commonly use !r many times day.
- oefrha 5y agoOr you can spend a few minutes configuring things locally to bypass a middle man, an additional HTTP redirect, and save a keystroke (!) or more since you can define your own shorter shortcuts. Privacy, performance, and convenience improved at the same time.
- bhrgunatha 5y agoI have a keyword search for reddit and I'll sometimes add a further refinement by editing the query for a specific subreddit site:reddit.com/r/television premier episode discussion
- jimmaswell 5y agoI have a ton of these set up in Firefox which used to work seamlessly on mobile until they ruined it in the disaster of a rewrite, and now they don't plan to bring it back at all in favor of some replacement system that's still not done yet.
- nnt38 5y agoMy custom searches in Chrome have been stable for years now
- throwaway123x2 5y agoThat rewrite has been so bad, ruined probably the best mobile browser out there.
- nanaboo 5y agowait till you find out they will do the same to the desktop version [meta] Migrate keyword bookmarks into about:preferences managed Search Engines https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1653261 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1653261