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		mixmastamyk on March 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown That's interesting, though I only care about a few sites, and prefer the brevity of the ff keywords. Sounds like the two could complement each other, like aliases and completion in a shell.

Maert on March 8, 2013 [–]

You can rename the search engine abbreviations as you like.

I have "w" for wikipedia, "y" for youtube, "gm" for google maps, etc...

This is THE feature of Chrome that I use constantly every day. It saves 5-10 seconds on each search you do every day. It adds up.

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