Save time add custom searches to the Chrome address bar
The Google Chrome has a feature from its early versions that allows you to search from its address bar, customize search engines and their keywords, and to set your own searches.
Did we mess you up? It's simple, in Chrome you can write a word in the address bar (that is where you write the various urls), and Chrome will automatically suggest relevant searches. The way he selects and suggests these searches can be set as you want.
Using this feature, you can save a lot of time and speed up your daily searches related to you. In this article, we'll see how to set up and use your own searches in Google Chrome with some popular examples.
To set your own search engine, you need to open your Chrome browser and type the following text in its address bar:
chrome: // settings / searchengines
In the section Other search engines , you can enter any third-party online service that naturally has a search function. Process extremely useful that saves a lot of time.
For example, let's add the service Google Translate web to translate the contents of the address bar from English to Greek directly.
- Type the text "Greek Translation" as the new search engine name. The name can be any descriptive you want, and in whatever language you like.
- Write “gr ”, as a shortcut
- Type the following line in the URL field:
http://translate.google.gr/#en|gr|%s
- Press the “keyEnd".
From now on, when writing "gr something"In the Google Crhome address bar, the page with the already translated text in Greek will open
For example, type the following:
gr doors
Here are some useful shortcuts that you can add to the Chrome browser (name, shortcut, url format):
- Wikipedia w http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=% s
- Google Images img http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&q=%s&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
- Google Play Applications app https://play.google.com/store/search?c=apps&q =% s
- Duck Duck Go ddg https://duckduckgo.com/?q =% s
That's it! Now you can open a Wikipedia article on a topic, or see some images that use it Google Images directly from the address bar by typing w respectively.
