http://norman.walsh.name/2005/12/21/ysearch 8 166 2005-12-21T14:05:06-05:00 $Date: 2005-12-21 15:04:34 -0500 (Wed, 21 Dec 2005) $ Norman Walsh 2005 Norman Walsh Power searching with Yahoo! and Firefox shortcuts. By way of Dare Obasanjo , I learned of Yahoo! Shortcuts. They seem pretty cool all by themselves, but combined with a browser trick I learned ages ago, I think I'm hooked. Here's the trick (in Firefox anyway): create a bookmark named “Y” with the location “http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%s” and the keyword “y”. Now “y your search” in the browser address bar will search Yahoo! for “your search”. And if you put a shortcut in there, it'll do that too. For example, to find the Wikipedia URI for “Firefox” above, I typed “y !wiki firefox” into the address bar. Sweet. I setup the shortcut “!nwn” to search for pages on my blog, so “y !nwn my search” will find the pages on my blog where I mentioned “my search”. Ok, maybe not useful so much for you, but useful for me sometimes.