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Ask HN: Search Engine Selector below address bar

1 pointsby dvduvalover 5 years ago
Rather than always having to switch my default search engine by going through some settings, wouldn&#x27;t it be nice just to have a set of buttons that I can configure that appear just below the search I make in the address bar? I type in whatever keywords I want, and then I click the icon for the search engine I want to use. For example if I want to search Amazon products, I can click on an Amazon button. If I went to search the Chinese search engine Baidu because I just type something in Chinese that I want to search for, I can do that. And then perhaps if I do nothing, I could just hit enter and get a Google search if that is my default. What would be wrong with that? How do I get this technology? It seems easy enough.<p>And my default search engine could still display autocomplete possibilities below these buttons.

2 comments

mtmailover 5 years ago
What you describe is what Firefox browser already offers by default: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;CZeUiSe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;CZeUiSe</a>
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blowskiover 5 years ago
DuckDuckGo’s bangs feature is not far away from this - ‘!auk Harry Potter’ will search for Harry Potter on the Amazon UK site.
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