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Comment by michaelt | Hacker News Reader

In Firefox I can create a bookmark to https://www.google.com/search?btnI=lucky&q=java+6+%s with the keyword set to jd then by typing (say) "jd Collections" in the address bar I get directed to the first Google result for "java 6 collections"

I gather you can emulate a similar behavior in Chrome using its 'edit search engines' function.

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That's pretty awesome, and it works exactly the same way in Chrome.

I just modified the concept for my own use by making a custom search engine for

  https://www.google.com/search?btnI=lucky&q=%s+site:developer.mozilla.org+docs

linked to the keyword "mdn".

So I can type "mdn settimeout" or "mdn border radius" and I'll be taken to the respective pages!

As a rather shameless plug, using DDG allows you to do the exact same thing if you add an exclamation mark without even having to make a custom search engine.

DDG = duckduckgo.com (some of us who've been reading HN for a long time probably know this, but I imagine that the majority of readers doesn't)

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