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The same is available in Chrome. I made a list of shortcuts I use here [0] -- copying a few favorites below: shortcut: "aw", lets you type: "aw s3", "aw iam

The same is available in Chrome. I made a list of shortcuts I use here [0] -- copying a few favorites below: shortcut: "aw", lets you type: "aw s3", "aw iam", etc. https://console.aws.amazon.com/%s shortcut: "amzn", searches the retail side https://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=%s shortcut: "gm", searches through gmail (change the 0 if you use multiple accounts) https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/%s shortcut: "maps", searches google maps https://www.google.com/maps/search/%s/ shortcut: "img", searches google images https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%s shortcut: "wp", goes directly to the article if it exists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s shortcut: "yt", searches youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s [0] https://github.com/gregsadetsky/custom-search-engines https://github.com/gregsadetsky/custom-search-engines

cpleppert 3y ago
You can also use a duckduckgo query like ! site:site.com query. That is more reliable when using something like wikipedia when you aren't sure of the exact title and don't have to type it all out.
- Zecc 3y ago
  Of course for Wikipedia specifically you'd use `!wiki query` instead.
robbyking 3y ago
And IIRC, Chrome copied this from Opera. It's a shame Opera never found its audience (or more specifically, a revenue stream), they pioneered a lot of browser features that we consider to be standard these days, like tabs and support for extensions.
- kbenson 3y ago
  It's been around in some form in most major browsers for decades. I remember Creating custom search entries in Firefox (or was it Phoenix still at that point?) in the early 2000's.
- tomphoolery 3y ago
  is it really a "shame"? opera is the oldest successful browser of all time.
jessriedel 3y ago
My list: Aliexpress alternativeto.net Amazon Apple AppStore ArXiv Bing Video BookFinder ISBN DHL Tracking Number DOI Resolver duckduckgo.com ebay.com Facebook HackerNews (Angolia search) ISBN Search Library Genesis MathOverflow Physics.StackExchange Scholarpedia Sci-Hub (DOI) SciRate (arXiv) Scite.ai Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com Tripadvisor.com Twitter Urban Dictionary Walmart Wayback Machine Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Weather Underground Yelp YouTube Video Search images.google.com scholar.google.com maps.google.com news.google.com scholar.google.com video.google.com I have about half of these memorized enough to use regularly.
momothereal 3y ago
My company intranet has a shortcut/URN website that we all configure as "go", so "go home", "go paystubs", etc. Anyone can create URNs. No more stale bookmarks when the HR system keeps changing. Very useful!
- anilit99 3y ago
  Chase?
  - momothereal 3y ago
    No but I'm sure many big orgs to this! Much easier than updating a home page with 1000+ links
    - Jenk 3y ago
      My big-org can barely do DNS let alone something as fancy as an intranet search that works/is useable!
hipjiveguy 3y ago
Chrome broke this recently, for shortcuts that have no substitution. The ominibox history takes over. For example, I used to be able to just type, "yt" and go to youtube, but now Ominbox history replaces it with my most recent history item that has "yt" in it shortcut: "yt", goes to youtube https://www.youtube.com/ https://www.youtube.com/

cpleppert 3y ago

You can also use a duckduckgo query like ! site:site.com query. That is more reliable when using something like wikipedia when you aren't sure of the exact title and don't have to type it all out.

Zecc 3y ago
Of course for Wikipedia specifically you'd use `!wiki query` instead.

robbyking 3y ago

And IIRC, Chrome copied this from Opera. It's a shame Opera never found its audience (or more specifically, a revenue stream), they pioneered a lot of browser features that we consider to be standard these days, like tabs and support for extensions.

kbenson 3y ago
It's been around in some form in most major browsers for decades. I remember Creating custom search entries in Firefox (or was it Phoenix still at that point?) in the early 2000's.
tomphoolery 3y ago
is it really a "shame"? opera is the oldest successful browser of all time.

jessriedel 3y ago

My list: Aliexpress alternativeto.net Amazon Apple AppStore ArXiv Bing Video BookFinder ISBN DHL Tracking Number DOI Resolver duckduckgo.com ebay.com Facebook HackerNews (Angolia search) ISBN Search Library Genesis MathOverflow Physics.StackExchange Scholarpedia Sci-Hub (DOI) SciRate (arXiv) Scite.ai Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com Tripadvisor.com Twitter Urban Dictionary Walmart Wayback Machine Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Weather Underground Yelp YouTube Video Search images.google.com scholar.google.com maps.google.com news.google.com scholar.google.com video.google.com I have about half of these memorized enough to use regularly.

momothereal 3y ago

My company intranet has a shortcut/URN website that we all configure as "go", so "go home", "go paystubs", etc. Anyone can create URNs. No more stale bookmarks when the HR system keeps changing. Very useful!

anilit99 3y ago
Chase?
- momothereal 3y ago
  No but I'm sure many big orgs to this! Much easier than updating a home page with 1000+ links
  - Jenk 3y ago
    My big-org can barely do DNS let alone something as fancy as an intranet search that works/is useable!

hipjiveguy 3y ago

Chrome broke this recently, for shortcuts that have no substitution. The ominibox history takes over. For example, I used to be able to just type, "yt" and go to youtube, but now Ominbox history replaces it with my most recent history item that has "yt" in it shortcut: "yt", goes to youtube https://www.youtube.com/ https://www.youtube.com/