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Right, but DDG provides a TON of them so you don't have to add them all manually. For example, I only need to search imdb like once ever 6 months or so, and I don't want to have to think about if I've already set up a browser search for it and go to the trouble of setting it up if not.

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Then use a browser that supports open search, type "imdb <tab>" in your address bar and whatever you want to search for, no need to use "bang-notation". I rarely find websites that does not support this kind of feature. In order for it to work you have to have visited the website one time first, but after that it's pretty straight forward.

It appears that Chrome doesn't support open search and I'd prefer not to switch browsers just for this one small feature.

Edit: I stand corrected.

Of course it does: http://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search

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