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Alternatively, just add keyword searches to your browser.

Here's how to do it with Firefox: https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb

In Chrome, you do pretty much the same in Settings->Search Engine->Manage Search Engines->Add

You'll want to use something like this, to taste:

  https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com

I have these set up for all kinds of sites, and they're accessible straight from my local machines (because: sync)

More help for Google search operators: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

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I find the Duck Duck Go !bang things to be pretty comprehensive, easy to memorize. Just leaving my default engine as ddg and can get github, archwiki, reddit, google maps, npm, hacker news search very quickly

This. I commonly use !r many times day.

Or you can spend a few minutes configuring things locally to bypass a middle man, an additional HTTP redirect, and save a keystroke (!) or more since you can define your own shorter shortcuts. Privacy, performance, and convenience improved at the same time.

I have a ton of these set up in Firefox which used to work seamlessly on mobile until they ruined it in the disaster of a rewrite, and now they don't plan to bring it back at all in favor of some replacement system that's still not done yet.

My custom searches in Chrome have been stable for years now

That rewrite has been so bad, ruined probably the best mobile browser out there.

wait till you find out they will do the same to the desktop version

[meta] Migrate keyword bookmarks into about:preferences managed Search Engines https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1653261

I have a keyword search for reddit and I'll sometimes add a further refinement by editing the query for a specific subreddit

site:reddit.com/r/television premier episode discussion

Wait and instead I don't have some random collection of people knowing all my searches? Nooooowayyyyyyy

Are you talking about Google?

No, he's talking about the OP, whose site needs to intercept all your search queries in order to provide the highly valuable service of adding "site:reddit.com" for you.

Oh, I thought he was talking about Google, who intercept all your search terms for the valuable service of providing advertising to you.

this is really my favorite approach, thanks for sharing the knowledge.

or directly to your operating system if using KDE

imagine

Wait, how? Via the launcher?

yeah they call them web shortcuts and you can make custom ones, and customize the resulting generated URL stucture based on the text entered into krunner, it's a really nice feature in KDE

https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/konqueror/konqueror/enhanced...

I actually have begun duplicating all my browser keyword searches to Alfred on macOS and Albert on Linux.

I don’t even need to make sure the browser have focus now.

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