Chromebooks have the power of Chrome and Google search built in. Google often finds too many things. Create custom search engines that enhance the experience by creating killer shortcuts. With Chromebooks, you don’t have apps, so your entire experience is web-based.
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How to find your current default search engine
Depending on your browsing habits, Google can bring a lot of search engines to your browser. To find these, click the hamburger icon in the upper-right corner and go to Settings, then Search in the middle of the window. Then click Manage Search Engines. You can also type chrome://settings/searchEngines in the Address Bar.
Your Chromebook will use Google as the default search engine. After all, this laptop is a Google device. You are not stuck; you can change the search engine to Yahoo!, Ask or even Bing. To change your default search engine, hover over it and Make Default will show up.
When you type a search term in the Address Bar, the results will show up as Bing results.
No matter which search engine you choose as your default search engine, you can search for it and other tools via the Address Bar shortcut.
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Keyboard Shortcuts for Search Engines in Google Chrome
Even if you leave your search engine as Google, you may still want to search on Bing. Sure, you could type bing.com into the Address Bar and then type in your search term. It’s a two-step process, which you can shorten to two letters.
From the same Search Engine settings, click one of the search engines. In the middle column, change the content there to whatever shortcut you want. I set it in this example as bi but I could have put something shorter like b or the word bing.
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After you create the shortcut, type the shortcut in the Address Bar and then press tab. What you type next will be sent to Bing as a search. If you look in that default search box, you’ll see most tools where you can enter a partial name and search in one step. At least you don’t have to go to the site and then search. The search engine lets you do it all in one step
Clean What’s in Your Search Engine
Your history may not be revealed to you if you delete it, but your other Search engines may reveal content you don’t want to share. Click the search engines you don’t want and then click the x next to it. That will get rid of the search engines you don’t want.
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If some of those search engines are handy, go to that middle column and create a few shortcuts. I keep a list of keyboard shortcuts in my Google Keep docs so it’s always handy.
Create a Personal Search on Google
Sites often have built-in search functionality, but they may not be as good as Google’s. To search for a site with Google, all you need to do is put site: before your search term. So if I want to search Tech Guide for all my articles, I can type
Website: guidingtech.com Dave Greenbaum
That query uses Google to search Guiding Tech for my name. It’s extra work though. Since I frequently search for that site, I was able to convert this search into a custom search engine. Scroll to the bottom of More Search Engines until you find an empty box.
Do the math: remember that you can enter calculations in the Address Bar and get the results.
In the first column, give your search engine a descriptive name. This label makes it easy to find. It does not change the search term or query. In the second column, enter your keyboard shortcut. For Tutorial Technology, I use GT. Then in that last column I put the real query.
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=site:guidingtech.com+%s
That requires Google to search the siteguidetech.com. Now I just type GT in the Address Bar to search all Guiding Tech from Google.
Cool search engine for Chromebook users
Since Chromebooks use the browser for almost everything, some quick keyboard shortcuts save you steps. In each of these custom search engines, just put a descriptive name in the first column, a shortcut in the second, and a suggested query in the third.
- Gmail:
- https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/#search/%s
- Google Drive:
- http://drive.google.com/?hl=en&tab=bo#search/%s
- Directions from your house (if you tell Google):
- http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=from+home+to+%s
- Twitter Update: (use your status instead of search terms):
- http://twitter.com/home?status=%s
- Mailing:
- mailto:?to%s (use email address to send to instead of search term)
- Search Evernote:
- http://www.evernote.com/search?q=%s
- Create an event calendar:
- http://www.google.com/calendar/event?ctext=+%s+&action=TEMPLATE&pprop=HowCreated%3AQUICKADD
Next step
Don’t limit yourself with the ideas here. Check out the URLs when you are on a website to create some shortcuts. You will notice %S is the value passed to the URL when you use the shortcut.
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