Yahoo! Search Shortcuts
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 ” 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 “your
searchy !wiki firefox” into the
address bar. Sweet.
I setup the shortcut “!nwn” to
search for pages on my blog, so
“y !nwn ”
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.my search
Comments
Why not simply use Firefox keywords? Much easier!
Why bother with the !? To go to Wikipedia's Firefox page in Firefox, I just type "wp firefox". See http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5358 for more.
This keymark thing is built into Firefox, too. It's not like you need to install some Greasemonkey extension.
Ehm, ehm -- always amused when Firefox users discovered this feature which was in Konqueror for years (at least since 3.0, but I think it was in 2.*). At least once I can smile to Firefox users :-) So I do not have to go through Yahoo! -- just type wiki:firefox into location bar and that's it.
Matej
Ok. Consensus seems to be that I could just use firefox and be done with it. Fair enough. Maybe I wasn't seeing the forest for the trees, I dunno. Nevermind. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Definitely, no need to go through Y! to use these shorthands, define your own. I have a bunch of single or two letter quick search bookmarks for [g]oogle, [y]ahoo, [w]ikipedia, [p]erl (or python, or PHP), and so on. Very handy: Alt+D g keywords...