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
Search: danielsgriffin.com/search
Shortcut: dsg
URL with %s in place of query: https://danielsgriffin.com/search/?q=%s
| Search tool | URL | Shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Bing | https://www.bing.com/search?q=%s | b |
| Brave Search | https://search.brave.com/search?q=%s | br |
| DuckDuckGo | https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s | ddg |
| Ecosia | https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=%s | e |
| https://www.google.com/search?q=%s | g | |
| Marginalia Search | https://you.com/search?q=%s | marg |
| Perplexity AI | https://www.perplexity.ai/search/?q=%s | p |
| Perplexity AI.Copilot | https://www.perplexity.ai/search?q=%s&copilot=true | pc |
| Qwant | https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s | qw |
| Semantic Scholar | https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=%s | ss |
| Sourcegraph | https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=%s | src |
| Startpage | https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=%s | sp |
| https://twitter.com/search?q=%s | t | |
| Twitter.filter:follows | https://twitter.com/search?q=%s filter%3Afollows | tf |
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s | wp |
| You.com | https://you.com/search?q=%s | you |
| YouChat | https://you.com/search?q=%s&tbm=youchat&cfr=chat | youchat |
| danielsgriffin.com | https://danielsgriffin.com/search/?q=%s | dsg |
Added August 29, 2023
See also the OpenSearch protocol description specs @ github.com/dewitt/opensearch, an OpenSearch description format reference in the MDN docs, and background on OpenSearch at Wikipedia.
Added August 29, 2023
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 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
Added August 29, 2023
Added Sourcegraph to the table.
Added December 01, 2023 02:30 PM (PST)
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.