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Minterest: “How To Create Custom Search Engines In Google Chrome To Boost Productivity” plus 2 more
Google Chrome’s Omnibox (or the address bar) is not something new to you and me.It allows us to navigate to a webpage or search the web from the address bar. And yeah, it even acts as a search engine to browse your own search and Chrome browsing history.
But did you know that it’s much more than just an address bar? That it can easily boost your productivity by helping you create and add your own custom search engines?
If you’re a Web 2.0 fanatic then I’m pretty sure that you often use the search engines by the popular (and biggest) web 2.0 sites like Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. But the problem is, every time you want to use its search feature, you have to actually visit those websites and then use its search function.
Of course, Google Chrome automatically adds all those custom search engines when you visit those websites (even if you don’t want to). That is, when you visit Amazon.com and uses its search engine, Chrome automatically adds a custom Amazon search to its list of search engines.
Like this:
Google Chrome Custom Search Engines (Auto Generated)
It’s a nice feature, right? Well, not necessarily. The problem arises when you need tailored search results and a custom shortcut key (or known as the keyword in Google Chrome’s custom search engines).
For instance, my favorite search engine is Google and the default search engine in Chrome is Google itself. But since I live in India, Chrome automatically sets Google India (Google.co.in) as my default search engine even though I want to use Google.com as my primary search engine.
Again, they show personalized search results by default which I don't want. So the solution is… to add our own custom search engines to Google Chrome. You can add, edit, remove and manage your Google Chrome search engines from Chrome > Settings > Search.
Or, directly from Google Chrome's address bar. Just right-click in the address bar and click "Edit Search Engines…".
On MacOSOn Windows
And then you’ll see a list of custom search engines. It’s categorized as Default search engines and Other search engines.
Now you can add your own custom search engines (as many as you want!) by clicking on the “ADD” button under "Other search engines".
Add a new search engine: Enter a label for the search engine.
Keyword: Enter the text shortcut you want to use for the search engine. You can use the keyword to quickly access the search engine via the address bar.
URL with %s in place of query: Enter the web address for the search engine.
It may sound very simple but you really can do A LOT more things than you can imagine just because you can virtually add any website to it. It's super cool when you can define your own shortcuts to activate the above search engines, and I personally guarantee that it WILL boost your productivity.
I have created custom search engines for Wikipedia Search by Google, Google Cache, Google’s I’m Feeling Lucky, Google Images, Who.is, Gmail Search, Outlook.com Search, Google Dictionary, Google Site Search, iTunes Store Search, Yahoo! Finance, and whatnot.
You can find the correct URL by doing a sample search and then you have to replace the search query with “%s”.
15 Google Chrome Custom Search Engine Ideas (My Personal Favorites)
Here are some of top custom Chrome search engines that you can consider. It’s copied from my list of Google Chrome search engines. You can give any label and keyword as you want for each search engine but don't change the URL unless you know what you're doing.
You can add and use this custom search engine to search the website that you’re currently browsing. I was using the Chrome extension Omnibox Site Search for this purpose but replaced with a custom search engine. Thanks to a Lifehacker tip.
To search my own tweets from all the Twitter accounts that I own. So you can add one or more Twitter handles of your choice and then search all of them in one go.
My Custom Search Engines On Google Chrome
Even more?
Top 11 Google Chrome Custom Search Engines
Here's a list of Google Chrome custom search engines that I believe is essential for almost anyone and everyone. It will help you search the web faster, effective, and smarter. It’s actually a list of Query URLs that you can use to create your own search engines for the following websites. Just use the following query urls and give a name and keyword of your choice.
Google Images — https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&q=%s
Google News — https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&tbm=nws
Google Dictionary — https://www.google.com/search?q=define+%s
Google Chrome is indeed much more than just a web browser. With over 1 billion users, it's more like an operating system within an operating system. I’m pretty sure that nowadays people are spending more time on their web browser than they spend on the computer (minus browsing).
Got an idea for a custom search engine? Do let me know as a comment below and I will be happy to add it to the above list.
Happy Searching! ;)
First Published: November 7, 2013; Last Updated: Thursday, March 15, 2018.
First Published: September 26, 2016; Last Updated: Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
Amazon is the largest retailer on the web. I’m not an Amazon fanatic but I like to shop online (or on Amazon). And I believe Amazon will become a lot more bigger than what it is today.
For me Amazon was all about online shopping and shopping only until a few years go, and then I came to know about its dominance in the cloud computing space.
That’s how I became curious and made a plan to list all its products and services and app (or this very blog post).
So today, I'm listing all the products and services and apps by Amazon. And I will be updating this article as they launch more products and services.
Over 300 million active users. Over 500 million products. Over $100 $200 billion in annual revenues. Over 500,000 employees. Over $300 $750 billion market capitalization. That's the stats of Amazon.
Amazon(Amazon.com) — The largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization.
Amazon Advertising — Connect your brand to Amazon customers wherever they share, read, listen, purchase, research and download online, across devices.
Amazon Appstore— Amazon Appstore for Android is an app store for the Android operating system operated by Amazon.com.
AmazonBasics— AmazonBasics offers quality and value on everyday products delivered straight to your door.
Amazon Books— Amazon Books is a chain of retail bookstores owned by online retailer Amazon.
Amazon Business— Everything you love about Amazon. For work.
Amazon Dash Button— Amazon Dash is a consumer goods ordering service which uses a proprietary device for ordering goods over the Internet.
Amazon Drive — Get unlimited online storage to backup, protect and share photos, videos and files from any device.
Amazon Echo — Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more—instantly. All you have to do is ask.
Amazon Elements— Amazon Elements is a line of premium everyday essentials exclusively available to Amazon Prime members.
Amazon Fire OS — An Android-based operating system by Amazon for its Fire Phone and Kindle Fire range of devices.
Amazon Fire Phone* — A 3D-enabled smartphone designed and developed by Amazon.
Amazon Fire TV — Amazon Fire TV is a tiny box you connect to your HDTV. It’s the easiest way to enjoy over 250,000 TV episodes and movies on Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, and HBO NOW, plus games, music, and more.
AmazonFresh— It is a grocery delivery service by Amazon.
Amazon Handmade— Discover genuinely handcrafted products created by Artisans around the world.
Amazon Home Services— Amazon Home Services is a new and simple way to buy and schedule professional services such as furniture assembly, house cleaning, and plumbing directly on Amazon.com.
Amazon Inspire— Amazon Inspire is an open collaboration service that helps educators discover, gather, and share educational content.
Amazon Go— Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no checkout required.
Amazon Kindle — Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers by Amazon.com that enable users to browse, buy, download and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store.
Amazon Launchpad— Amazon Launchpad offers online shopping of products from startups, with a great selection of new technology, innovative gadgets, electronics, wearable tech, workout, style, and home products from startups.
Amazon Locker— Amazon Lockers are secure, self-service kiosks where customers can pick up Amazon.com packages at a time and place that is convenient for them.
Amazon Music Unlimited— Amazon Music Unlimited is a premium music subscription service featuring tens of millions of songs and thousands of expert-programmed playlists and stations.
Amazon Prime — Enjoy fast free shipping, exclusive access to movies and TV shows, ad-free music, unlimited photo storage, and Kindle books.
Amazon Prime Air — Amazon Prime Air is a future service that will deliver packages up to five pounds in 30 minutes or less using small drones.
Amazon Prime Music— Ad-free and on-demand music service for Amazon Prime members.
Amazon Prime Now — Prime Now offers household items and essentials you need every day plus the best of Amazon, with FREE 2-hour delivery.
Amazon Prime Video— Enjoy exclusive Amazon Originals as well as popular movies and TV shows.
Amazon Prime Video Direct— Prime Video Direct helps content creators and visual storytellers reach millions of Prime Video customers worldwide.
Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems) — It’s all about robotics.
AmazonSmile — Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice.
Amazon Studios— Amazon Studios is a subsidiary of Amazon that focuses on developing television series, and distributing and producing films and comics from online submissions and crowd-sourced feedback.
Amazon Tap — A portable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled speaker that gives you rich, full-range sound.
Amazon Video Direct— Helping content creators and visual storytellers reach millions of Amazon customers across hundreds of devices with the same distribution options and delivery quality available to major motion picture and television studios.
Amazon Vine— Amazon Vine is an internal service of Amazon.com that allows manufacturers and publishers to receive reviews for their products on Amazon.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)— Amazon Web Services offers a suite of cloud-computing services that make up an on-demand computing platform.
Amazon Wickedly Prime— A new line of distinctive food and beverages, available exclusively to Amazon Prime members.
Amazon WorkDocs — Amazon WorkDocs is a fully managed, secure enterprise storage and sharing service with strong administrative controls and feedback capabilities that improve user productivity.
Amazon WorkSpaces — Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed, secure desktop computing service which runs on the AWS cloud.
Amazon Your Garage— Find parts and accessories that fit your vehicle and ask other owners for tips and advice.
AbeBooks (AbeBooks.com) — Shop a vast selection of books, art and collectibles from independent sellers around the world.
Alexa (Alexa.com) — An Amazon company that provides commercial web traffic data and analytics.
Audible.com (Audible.com) — Audible sells digital audiobooks, radio and TV programs, and audio versions of magazines and newspapers.
AWS Cloud9— AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.
Book Depository— A UK-based online book seller with a large catalogue offered with free shipping to over 160 countries.
Box Office Mojo— Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.
Brilliance Audio— Publishes audio books for consumers, resellers, and librarians in the United States.
Diapers* (Diapers.com)— An online specialty retailer for baby products.
Goodreads (Goodreads.com) — Share book recommendations with your friends, join book clubs, answer trivia. Note: Shelfari has merged with Goodreads.
IMDb (IMDb.com) — Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows.
Junglee* — Junglee.com is an online marketplace by Amazon designed uniquely for India.
LOVEFiLM* — A DVD rental and streaming video on demand service.
Ring (Ring.com) — Ring lets you monitor every corner of your property with Video Doorbells and security cameras.
Souq (Souq.com) — It’s the largest e-commerce site in the Arab world.
Twitch (Twitch.tv) — A live streaming video platform by Amazon.
Whole Foods Market— A supermarket chain that specializes in selling food products without artificial preservatives, colors, flavors, sweeteners, and hydrogenated fats.
Woot— Daily Deals for Electronics, Computers, Home, Tools, Garden, Sport, Accessories, Kids, Shirt, Wine, & more.
Zappos (Zappos.com) — An online shoe and clothing shop.
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You might also want to check out all the mobile apps by Amazon — for iOS and for Android. :)
As you can see, Amazon is NOT all about Amazon.com. It’s a futuristic company!
There’s a good chance that your favorite mobile app (and maybe website too) is powered by Amazon. You know how? Amazon Cloud. Amazon’s profits comes from its cloud services and not from its e-commerce business.
And do you know what I like the most from the above products and services by Amazon? It’s NOT Kindle or Fire or Alexa or Echo.
It’s Amazon Prime!
Amazon Prime is a membership program that gives customers access to streaming video, music, e-books, free shipping and a variety of other Amazon-specific services and deals.
And they can still add a lot more things to Amazon Prime and charge us a monthly/annual fee which means lifetime guaranteed revenue for them.
Google search, Bing search, or Yahoo search. But have you ever tried the DuckDuckGo search? It’s a search engine that doesn’t track you and has everything (like suggestions, image search, video search, etc.) you expect from a search engine.
There’s a very good chance that we end up using only the most popular websites on the web because they are just everywhere. However, it doesn’t really mean that they’re the best websites on the Internet.
Needless to say, “popular” isn’t necessarily the best. And that’s how I decided to come up with a list of extremely useful (and probably less-known) websites on the web.
Whether you’re a student, a professional, or a homemaker, I have hand-picked one hundred most useful websites for you — to get things done, or to spend time with, or to find something interesting. And no, it doesn’t include the Facebooks and Amazons of the world.
About.me — Create your free, one-page website in just a few minutes.
Airbnb — Rent unique accommodations from local hosts in 191+ countries.
Allrecipes— Find and share everyday cooking inspiration on Allrecipes.
AlternativeTo— AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software by recommending alternatives to apps you already know.
Awesome Screenshot— Screen capture for all or part of any web page. Add annotations, comments, blur sensitive info, and share with one-click uploads.
Bitly — A URL shortener and link management service.
BlaBlaCar— BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long distance carpooling service, connecting drivers with empty seats to people travelling the same way.
Calm— Relax with Calm, a simple mindfulness meditation app that brings clarity and peace of mind into your life.
Canva— Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more.
Clarity— Clarity is a service that helps you find, schedule and pay for expert advice over the phone to help you be more productive and grow your business.
Clip Converter— Clip Converter is a free online media conversion application, which allows you to reocord, convert and download nearly any audio or video URL (from YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) to common formats.
Couchsurfing— Couchsurfers share their homes, cities and lives in profound in meaningful ways, making travel anywhere in the world a truly social experience.
Dailymotion— Dailymotion is a video-sharing website where you can upload, watch, and share videos.
Diigo— Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community.
The Freecycle Network— The Freecycle Network is a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns.
Ge.tt— Ge.tt is an instant, real-time file publishing and sharing service.
Goodreads— Discover and share books you love on Goodreads, the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations.
Grammarly— Online proofreading tool that checks text for grammar, punctuation, and style, and features a contextual spelling checker and plagiarism detector.
Groupon— Discover and save on 1000s of great deals at nearby restaurants, spas, things to do, shopping, travel and more.
Hide My Ass— Try Hide My Ass free proxy to surf anonymously and protect your online identity.
Hulu— Hulu brings you instant access to all of your favorite TV shows, the hottest new series and great films, all in one place.
IFTTT — IFTTT lets you connect the apps and devices you use every day, such as Amazon Alexa, Facebook, Twitter, Fitbit, Slack, and more. Also try, Zapier.
IMDb— IMD is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
Imgur— Imgur is the best place to share and enjoy the most awesome images on the Internet.
InstaCalc— Get answers as you type numbers using natural language.
Investing.com— Investing.com offers free real time quotes, portfolio, streaming charts, financial news, live stock market data and more.
Join.me — Collaborate instantly with free screen sharing, unlimited audio, and simple video conferencing.
Khan Academy— Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
Last.fm— Online music catalog with free music streaming, videos, photos, lyrics, charts, artist biographies, concerts and internet radio.
LastPass— LastPass remembers your passwords so that you can focus on the more important things in life. Also try, LastPass Password Generator.
Listly— Make cool lists and fun listicles on Listly, share them on Facebook and Twitter, and embed them on your blog or website.
LiveJournal— A service for journals and blogs, that also offers privacy controls, photo storage, publishing tools, style templates, and online communities for many interests.
Lyft — Request a ride with the tap of a button, and get picked up by a nearby community driver who'll take you to your destination within minutes. Also try, Uber.
Medium— Medium is a publishing platform to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you.
Meetup— Meetup brings people together in thousands of cities to do more of what they want to do in life.
Mint— Manage your money, pay your bills and track your credit score with Mint.
Namechk— Use Namechk to search for an available username or domain and secure your brand across the web.
Netflix— Watch Netflix movies & TV shows online or stream right to your smart TV, game console, PC, Mac, mobile, tablet and more.
Office.com— Collaborate for free with an online version of Microsoft Office suite.
Pablo— Design engaging images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds.
Pandora— Pandora is free, personalized radio that plays music you’ll love.
Pastebin— Pastebin lets you store text online for a set period of time.
PayPal— PayPal is the faster, safer way to send money, make an online payment, receive money or set up a merchant account.
Peek by UserTesting— See and hear a 5 minute video of a real person using your website or blog or app with Peek.
Splitwise — It’s a free tool that lets you track bills and share expenses with your friends and family, so that everyone gets paid back.
Spotify— Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.
Stack Exchange— Stack Exchange is a network of 100+ question and answer communities on everything from software programming to cooking, photography, and gaming.
StumbleUpon— StumbleUpon is the easiest way to discover new and interesting web pages, photos and videos across the Web.
Supercook— Supercook is a recipe search engine that lets you search by ingredients you have at home.
Techmeme — Techmeme is a one-page technology news aggregator.
TED— TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100+ languages.
Time And Date—Like, Countdown, Calculate Duration Between Two Dates, and more.
TuneFind— TuneFind contains an index of music and songs appearing in popular television shows and movies.
TwoFoods— TwoFoods is an online food comparison tool that helps you choose healthy foods.
Trading Economics— Get free economic indicators, Historical Data, Charts, News and Forecasts for 196 countries.
Trello— Trello gives you perspective over all your projects, at work and at home.
Truecaller— Truecaller helps identify unknown incoming calls, warns against unwanted calls through a community based spam list.
Tumblr— Post anything (from anywhere!), customize everything, and find and follow what you love.
TypeRacer— Test your typing speed and learn to type faster.
Udemy— Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 40000 courses and 12 million students.
Unsplash— Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.
Vimeo— Watch, upload and share HD and 4k videos with no ads.
Wattpad — Wattpad is a community for readers and writers where you can discover user-generated stories from almost all genres.
Wayback Machine— Explore more than 273 billion web pages saved over time.
WeTransfer— WeTransfer is a free service to send big or small files from A to B.
Wolfram|Alpha— Wolfram|Alpha gives you access to the world’s facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics, including science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music, etc.
Wunderlist— Wunderlist is a simple to-do list and task manager app that helps you get stuff done.
Yelp— Yelp connects people with great local businesses.
It’s very well possible that you already know a lot of websites that are listed here. However, I shortlisted the above websites as those are the ones that I often visit and I want others to explore these too.
…for a ton of useful websites on the Internet — organized by categories and subcategories.
If you know any other (less known) useful websites that’s missing in this list then do let me know as a comment below and I will add it to the list. Also, let me know if you think I must replace a website with its better alternative.
Happy Web Browsing! :)
First Published: October 27, 2016; Last Updated: Sunday, March 4, 2018.
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