Technology Tip: How to create a website search shortcut in firefox

Technology Tip:

How to create a website search shortcut in firefox

Note: The following article is reprinted from this article lostintechnology

It is quite obvious and an unquestionable fact that most people head away to Google as soon as they need to search something on the internet. However, when you have idea about what we are looking for, you might want to narrow down your search to a list of specific websites.

For example, if you need some technical stuff, how-to tips and social media tricks you could always rely on a site like ours. Many such websites do not provide an integrated search engine which makes it difficult to scan and find what you want.

As a solution to all this we will elaborate a process to create a domain specific search engine and save it as a bookmark  on Firefox. Then you may easily set keywords to the bookmark and use it to save time and effort.

Getting Started

Open the Firefox browser and create a new bookmark. One way to do that is to right click on the bookmark tool bar and choose the option for New Bookmark. You may also edit an existing one by bringing up its Properties.

On this dialog fill in certain details, as listed below:-

• Give the bookmark a Name for easy recognition.
• For Location, fill in something like http://www.lostintechnology.com/?s=%s. Replace the website URL with the domain of your choice. So, the location would be site URL appended by /?s=%s.
• Give it a keyword which will help you remember the site. I put the values as lit.
• Tags and description are optional and you may skip them. Click on Save when you are done.

Using the Bookmark

With all the above done, you have created your domain specific search engine. In order to use it just type the keyword followed by a space and they your query. You would receive results for the website.

In my case I would type lit query string. As you type, your URL would be built dynamically and that is how it works. More amazingly, even if the website uses Google Custom Search, you would not see all those ad sense in the results.

Note: This may not work on all website (depends on admin settings) but does well on most of them, especially, those using WordPress.

Tip: You may use the unique, easy to remember keyword for other bookmarks. That means if you associate a keyword with any bookmark, you would not have to look for it or click on it. You may just type the keyword on the address bar and hit enter to navigate to your favorite page.

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