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For years there has been a hidden trick that I use all the time in Internet Explorper. (I'm surprised I can't find much of anything about this on the internet; perhaps that's just another sign of IE's shrinking market share.) It is similar to the IE "Search Provider" mechanism, only better.
It's so hidden it doesn't even have a name. I call it SearchURL.
It is a shortcut that enables you to search a website quickly. For example, if you find yourself searching the CP Lounge often, you could use this shortcut typed into the IE Address Bar:
cp baloney and you will get all the Lounge articles containing "baloney". (Including this one, I presume.)
Here's how to set it up (You'll need regedit privileges):
In regedit, navigate to:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl
Create a new Key. Give it the name "cp". For the default value, paste in this text:
<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=%s&doctypeid=6&categoryid=f1_1159_">http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=%s&doctypeid=6&categoryid=f1_1159_</a> (Note: the "secret sauce" is the %s in the url. IE will replace that with whatever search term you supply in the address bar.) It should work immediately. Just type cp baloney or whatever in your IE Address Bar.
I've created a couple dozen shortcuts for all the sites I frequent (e.g. wikipedia, thesaurus.com, amazon.com, stackoverflow, etc., as well as several internal sites on my company's intranet). It works on just about any site that has a "Search this site" box. Just search the site normally for some SearchTerm, then cut resulting the URL and replace SearchTerm with %s, then create a new SearchUrl key in the registry, choose any memorable abbreviation for the site, and paste the URL in the Data of the key. Pretty simple, eh?
Just thought I'd share the love.
P.S. There used to be a downloadable program (called TweakUI) that could set this up for you automatically (without regedit) but that program doesn't appear to exist anymore.
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Nice, but my hidden Internet Explorer tweak is, first thing I do, download Chrome and hide IE. 
Marc
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Nowadays, I use Edge to download Chrome, and then hide Edge...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sounds like an edge case.
I'll get my hat.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Gotta stay modern. 
Jeremy Falcon
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OriginalGriff wrote: use Edge to download Chrome
Sadly, neither are approved yet on my corporate network. Nevertheless, I don't think even Chrome offers this particular shortcut.
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Yes, chrome does, sorta: type the website name into the address bar, say youtube.com and then press the tab key, you'll get a search prompt.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Yeah, but with this method, you don't have to type in the website name.
ReduceKeystrokes!
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meh
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Sure. With Chrome you don't have to edit the registry. They expose the feature (deep, but still present) in the browser's UI: How to Set Keyword Bookmarks in Google Chrome[^]
Firefox is even simpler. There's a link in that LifeHacker article for more info.
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Yep, sure enough. (And I can't say as I'm surprised.) Thanks for pointing it out.
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It's kind of an interesting way of explaining your cutting edge technology.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I literally laughed my ass off at this one. Still trying to pick my ass off the floor. 
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Oh, for F's sake!
If you can't use "literally" figuratively, then just stop speaking English, because you're literally illiterate.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks to your initial comment I watched all four episodes.
Porcupine
I'm literally literal, or am I?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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It could have done with being funny, to make up for the fact that it's soooooo wrong.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I laughed at your comment more than the original one.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Does it search the site or just the page it's on? If it's the former then you can do that in chrome without a registry tweak just using something like site:codeproject.com bob in the address bar. If it's the latter, then Ctrl+F no?
Not to mention you get the added bonus of your browser not sucking when using Chrome.
Jeremy Falcon
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Neither, exactly (although it is similar to the first). It searches a specific url (see my example which just searches CP’s Lounge, rather than all of CP). But the real advantage is that I can assign an arbitrary shortcut/abbreviation, so I don’t have to type out the entire name of the site.
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Nice.
It's a lot better than typing "baloney site:codeproject.com".
There's a pretty huge "but", though.
kdmote wrote: There used to be a downloadable program (called TweakUI)
There still is[^], and it's still made by the MS Power Tools guys.
Heads up: download.cnet.com has taken to playing an "Aren't we the sweetest things!" video, when you open their pages, so turn the sound down, if appropriate.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In chrome you can set this up by going to settings -> Manage search engines -> add search engines
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Yup. Same feature. Thanks for pointing it out.
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in Mozilla's browser, Firefox, it's as simple as selecting 'add keyword for this search' in the context menu.
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iskSYS wrote: 'add keyword for this search'
Yep, this is the same feature (and Firefox has exposed it in a far simpler manner). One of the reasons I submitted the original post was to find out how to do this in other browsers, so thank you.
But just to clarify (regarding instructions in Firefox): you need to click into a searh field on a website (for example, the "Search Messages" at the top of this page) to access the context menu item.
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