Improving the efficiency of work in Google Chrome

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/ > Many people know about the possibilities of the address bar, Chrome, storage the search engine of different sites. However, to use it effectively, I think, know far not all.
I'm on the Internet only through the browser (a matter of taste and habits, of course) and use a custom search in Chrome a few dozen times a day. A large number of actions you perform every day through the browser, you can optimize by adding to the list some search engines.

So, come the dregs, turn to "technical" and practical side of things.

Change used search engines

In the "Search engines" are pre-installed search engines (Yandex, Google, or anything else depending on the build) and search the various sites to which you came. The table of three columns: the name of the search engine (by default this is the title of the home page), the keyword and the actual search engine address with the %s parameter (search query).



The key word is the default address of the site on which the search is conducted. In the first place and it should be optimized, because the search query in the address bar is typed as <keyword> <space or Tab> <query>.

Tips

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• Use Ctrl+T (equivalent Ctrl+L + <request> + Alt+Enter) to enter it in the address bar. Hot keys is a useful thing, especially in the browser.
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• Analyze your activity on various sites: if you use search, it may be more efficient to search directly in the address bar.
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• look Closely at my recommendations below. I tried to cover the greatest possible range of search engines, surely something useful.

set search engine

General guidelines

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• feel free to use single-letter keywords (for example, y or t for Youtube, g for Google and so on). When I set up the browser by itself, I got scared that instead of a normal search will search out customized, but in practice this happened I did not at all.
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• Write down two different options search by key words in Russian and English, e.g. "wiki" and "wiki". In this case it is even possible to separate them functionally: start "wiki" is looking for Russian Wikipedia, but "wiki", respectively, for the English section. The purpose of this recommendation is to reduce the number of switches layouts when prompted.
  

Categories, one search engine (as an example configuration)

Offer your subjective opinion on how it looks:
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Content
For me, this is one of the largest search categories. A couple of examples offhand (discovering music). In brackets — of possible keywords.

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• Vkontakte Music: (music, music, m, m, VKM, vkm).
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  http://vk.com/search?c%5Bq%5D=%s&c%5Bsection%5D=audio

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• Yandex.Music: (music, music, m, m, Yam, yam)
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  http://music.yandex.ru/#!/search?text=%s

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• Music on Rutracker.org: (music, music — will be handy if you shake and listen to music exclusively with events; in another case, rm, RM, rtmusic or other closest options)
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  http://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?f=<ID of the section with music>&nm=%s

this way you can quickly search for a video (Youtube, social networks), books (online stores, torrent trackers) and the like.


Additional features search engines
If you use Google search (or not them, the other search engines have similar capabilities), you can configure quick access to advanced search.
Examples:
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• Search in Google for the last 24 hours:
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  <Google Search>&tbs=qdr:d

  the Base search address is quite long, and I did not fully published; it is available in Chrome by default.
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• search the images:

  http://images.yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=%s&stype=image&lr=213
  &noreask=1&source=wiz

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• Another example: if the request appears only the url of the site to find information about the website and not go to him, I make a query of the form g <address>; g — key word search by default.

social networking
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• For people:
  

  http://vk.com/search?c%5Bname%5D=1&c%5Bq%5D=%s&c%5Bsection%5D=people

  http://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=%s&type=users

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• community:
  

  http://vk.com/search?c%5Bq%5D=%s&c%5Bsection%5D=communities

  http://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=%s&type=groups

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• Generalized search:
  

  http://vk.com/search?c%5Bq%5D=%s&c%5Bsection%5D=auto

  http://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=%s

Translation
A convenient and fast way to translate an unfamiliar word or phrase.
Example (Google Translate direction from English to Russian):
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http://translate.google.ru/#en/ru/%s

Other search categories
Search information not included in previous categories. This:
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• analysis of the function, the graph on WolframAlpha:
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  http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%s

  
  
  
  
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• Find places on the map:
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  http://maps.yandex.ru/?text=%s

  
  
  
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• item Search in the catalog online store:

  http://market.yandex.ru/search.xml?text=%s&from=os

  
  
  
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• Search for articles in the online encyclopedia
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  http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%s

  
  
  
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• Search Japanese kanji by its number in the catalogue:
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  http://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/%s

  
  
  
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• a Search of posts on habré:
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  http://habrahabr.ru/search/?q=%s

  
  
  

code execution in the browser
Another possible field of application is the "quick search".
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• HTML:
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  data:text/html,%s

  
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• Javascript:
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  javascript: %s

  

PS
Sorry for the confused presentation of ideas, previous experience of writing, I have not.
— Search engines list does not claim completeness and is intended solely for painting quick search using the address bar.

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