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 (Cmd+L) you can type a shortcut to search via a particular search tool.

To add a search tool in your browser, you a name for the tool, a shortcut, and a URL with %s in place of 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

Here is the search syntax for several search tools
Search tool	URL
Bing	https://www.bing.com/search?q=%s
Brave Search	https://search.brave.com/search?q=%s
danielsgriffin.com	https://danielsgriffin.com/search/?q=%s
DuckDuckGo	https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s
Ecosia	https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=%s
Google	https://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Perplexity AI	https://www.perplexity.ai/search/?q=%s
Perplexity AI.Copilot	https://www.perplexity.ai/search?q=%s&copilot=true
Qwant	https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s
Semantic Scholar	https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=%s
Sourcegraph	https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=%s
Twitter	https://twitter.com/search?q=%s
Twitter.filter:follows	https://twitter.com/search?q=%sfilter%3Afollows
Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s
You.com	https://you.com/search?q=%s

Asides

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.

Added 2023-08-29

Note: This is my first time suggesting an edit to a Stack Overflow answer.

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

Added 2023-08-29

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 2023-08-29

Added Sourcegraph to the table.