Use Google Suggestion for any search engine
For Firefox users, this is a small hack that I think might come in handy sometimes. Firefox Search Engines support on-the-fly auto-complete, which IE7 as I know doesn’t. This feature however is rarely utilized, but the default Google search engine luckily does use it. It comes pretty useful sometimes, especially when you want to search for something that you don’t know how to spell. Now suppose you want this auto-completion to search for specific product on Amazon rather than Google. You could do that easily without moving your hands off the keyboard as follows:
- Start with Google as the default search plugin, press Ctrl+K (Move cursor to Search Engine box)
- Start typing what you are looking for, say “HTC…”. Stop right there and you will see list of suggestions, one of which happens to be what I’m looking for. The “HTC Tytn ii”
- Move with the Down key to the desired result, say “HTC Tytn ii” in our case.
- Click Ctrl+Right key (Select current option). Cursor will move back to search engine box
- Click Ctrl+Down key (Browse installed search engines) until you reach Amazon Search Engine.
- Enter
That’s it. You can apply this to any other search or search engine you want, without moving your hands off the keyboard.
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Use Google Suggestion for any search engine…
For Firefox users, this is a small hack that I think might come in handy sometimes. Firefox Search Engines support on-the-fly auto-complete, which IE7 as I know doesn’t. This feature however is rarely utilized, but the default Google search engin…