browser site search shortcuts

This is an incomplete doc about browser site search shortcuts. You can modify your web browser so that after jumping to your address bar / 'omnibox' (Cmd+L) you can type a shortcut to search via a particular search tool.

To add a search tool in your browser, you need a name for the tool, a shortcut, and a URL with %s in place of the query. Here is the Google Chrome Help page. You can reach the settings directly by typing the following into your address bar: chrome://settings/searchEngines

Here is an example setup

Search: `danielsgriffin.com/search`

Shortcut: `dsg`

URL with %s in place of query: `https://danielsgriffin.com/search/?q=%s`

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Here is the search syntax for several search tools.
Search tool	URL	Shortcut

I made a goofy unofficial and unpacked Chrome extension to select a random search engine (with a provided shortcut), available on GitHub: [github.com/danielsgriffin/qrs](https://github.com/danielsgriffin/qrs).

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See also [the OpenSearch protocol description specs @ github.com/dewitt/opensearch](https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch), [an OpenSearch description format reference in the MDN docs][2], and [background on OpenSearch at Wikipedia][3].

[This is my first time suggesting an edit to a Stack Overflow answer](https://twitter.com/danielsgriffin/status/1696642364805390492).

HT: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6746256/how-do-i-instruct-the-googles-omnibar-the-way-to-do-a-search-for-my-domain/6746304#6746304

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While searching to try to remember the name of the OpenSearch protocol, g[parameter q in searches browsers sites engines], I stumbled on [Sourcegraph's Browser search engine shortcuts](https://docs.sourcegraph.com/integration/browser_extension/how-tos/browser_search_engine) doc.

You can add Sourcegraph as a browser search engine to quickly search Sourcegraph from your browser's location bar when you type a special shortcut, such as src. This is one of the most common ways to initiate a search on Sourcegraph.

As an example, you can search: [https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=OpenSearchDescription](https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=OpenSearchDescription)

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Added Sourcegraph to the table.

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- I've added Marginalia Search to the table above. - I've added the actual shortcuts I use in my browser to the table. - TODO: Look into supporting programmatically updating browser site search shortcuts with a Chrome extension. - Added 'omnibox' tag.