On 2013-08-06, at 21:35, Chris Down wrote: > On 2013-08-06 21:27, Truls Becken wrote: >> The advantage of the approach on the wiki is that you can have multiple >> search engines configured, or really, URL shortcuts with optional string >> substitution. Firefox has the same thing. > > I, for one, only really use one search engine, but I agree that this method is > inflexible in that way (although that's fairly implicit in the method).
It's not only useful for multiple search engines. You could for instance have a shortcut for running your default search engine against a specific site, or as in one of the examples on the wiki, to look up words in a dictionary, or simply as a shortcut to a page with no argument at all. -Truls
