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Original articles:

http://dmiessler.com/archives/1315
http://dmiessler.com/archives/176

Maybe I’m alone here, but I had no clue about Firefox’s quicksearch ability. Apparently, just by typing ‘g keyword’ in the URL bar, you’ll automatically search Google.

Back in 2005 Daniel Miessler expanded this feature by configuring FF to also search MSN and Technorati, which are also both very cool.

Well, now Google has added the ability to use command-line switches to their search feature such as /img to search images, /maps to search Google’s maps, /groups to search Google newgroups database, and so on.

You can find a great explanation for all the search functions here: http://projects.felipc.com/gcl/

To quote Daniel’s 2005 post, this is how you configure FF to also search MSN and Technorati:

1. Create a new bookmark in Firefox.
2. For the URL, add the text below for MSN:
“http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%s&FORM=QBRE”
3. For the prefix, add “m” (or whatever you want to use).
4. Create another bookmark.
5. Add this for the URL:
“http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=%s”
6. Use “t” for the prefix (or whatever you want to use).

Thanks, Daniel, for bringing this to my attention. I can see myself using this ALL the time.

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