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There is also mdn.io which can be used as shortcut in every browser like this (for a search for 'await'): http://mdn.io/await

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It seems neat on the surface but it also seem to involve two redirects, first one to google.com (which is not obvious and personally not something I would like), and then to MDN. It would be cool if it linked directly to the page on MDN or showed the content directly within the page.

And the second time I clicked I was met with this message, not mdn.io's fault but nonetheless (i.e. "google police" - not sure what they mean with "unusual activity", there is hardly any at the moment - maybe not enough? :) or maybe I just got a busy vpn exit point): https://imgur.com/itn48dZ

Yup, that site seems to be basically redirector to Google redirector [1].

You can get the very same effect like DuckDuckGo keyword search but with "just the last redirect" with vanilla browser bookmark [2] with `%s` interpolation:

    https://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=%s%20site%3Adeveloper.mozilla.org

[1] https://github.com/lazd/mdn.io [2] https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html - old page about feature in Firefox (currently the same works in Google Chrome as well). Amusing that the this `btnI` search is in the second example there.

If you set up your browser's default search engine as DuckDuckGo, this works from the location bar (at least in Firefox):

    !mdn await

This will perform a query to DuckDuckGo (the non-tracking search engine) first, and automatically redirect to MDN.

No need for extra add-ons; this is one of the standard set of 'bangs' DuckDuckGo provides.

If you go to chrome settings -> Manage search engines and define a new search engine with Keyword: "m" and "URL with %s in place of query": https://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Adeveloper.mozilla.or... typing "m await" in the omnibar will jump to the first google result from MDN, which is what it seems mdn.io does.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15306429 is my list of custom search engines.

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