Mike,
This article is describing behavior a bit different than I am playing with
in FireFox. This article is basically talking about searching from the
address bar. I am messing around with, hmm, essentially tweeking a
bookmark to associate a keyword with that bookmark. So, instead of going
to the address bar and typing in jaws-users and hitting control-enter, or
going to my favorites and finding the jaws-users page and hitting enter, I
could just go to the address bar and type j and enter, assuming I created
a keyword j for www.jaws-users.com.
Further more, if jaws-users has a search feature that I often use, I could
add the search variable to the keyword so instead of bringing up the
jaws-users page, then typing winamp into the search box and hitting enter,
I could instead just go to my address bar and type: j winamp, and it would
be the same as if I went to the jaws-users site, and entered winamp into
the search box.
It saves a step or two, especially if you go to certain sites and do
searches often.
In another Life Hacker example, they construct a google maps keyword, with
your home address already built into the keyword. They name the keyword,
maps. So, you can go to your address bar, type maps and an address, and
it brings up the google maps page as if you had gone there, and entered
your home address, and the other address already.
Seems pretty slick if you regularly do these kinds of searches.
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Mike & Barbara In Arcadia wrote:
Hi David & Dan;
Below is something I found regarding this topic.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3381361
> Google Toolbar Adds Keyword Browsing to Internet Explorer
Okay, couch time.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: David Ferrin
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Keyword browsing.
If people have been doing this nobody told me about it. It does sound more
than interesting and with luck I hope to find out if works in IE as well.
I
do have fire fox as well but IE is almost like an old habit or something
like that, thanks Dan. OK Mr. Mike on the left coast get to work and find
out about this deal.
David Ferrin
[email protected]
I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I'll probably screw that one
up
too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Rossi" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:50 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Keyword browsing.
Maybe folks here already know about this, but I found it quite
interesting. I haven't figured out if you could do this in Internet
Explorer yet, but I've been experimenting with keyword browsing in
FireFox.
You can create a keyword for a web site, then instead of either typing the
URL into the address bar, or searching through your book marks, you just
type the keyword into the address bar.
More importantly, you can adjust the URL in the book mark and add a
variable into it. Let me give an example.
I use www.ninjawords.com because I can't spell to save my life, and
sometimes the spell checker doesn't even know what I am talking about.
NinjaWords seems pretty good at figuring out what I meant to spell, and it
is simply a really fast front-end to wiktionary.
Anyway, I can set up a keyword, n, with a URL of www.ninjawords.com/%s
Then I I can open FireFox, type:
n sprocket
And it immediately brings me to the definition page for sprocket. Saves
me the time of going to the web page, then typing sprocket into the search
field and hitting enter.
You can set up keywords for all kinds of sites that take inputs, like
google maps, or google calendar. So, if you use google calendar, you
could have a keyword, say, cal, setup and then you could just open FireFox
and type:
cal dinner with Dave and Patty on Friday at 6:00 at their house.
Poof, I've just entered that event in my google calendar.
www.lifehacker.com had a great article about this, and although I've had
to stumble my way through setting up a couple of these key words, it seems
pretty useful so far.
Does anyone know if this is possible in IE? Not really sure if I care as
FireFox is very slowly drawing me in. And IE has been pissing me off
recently. But a lot of people prefer IE, so just thought it would be
helpful to them if someone knew about keyword browsing there.
Of course, maybe I am way far behind the times, and everyone has been
doing this for the last couple of years.
--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
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