Tips and Tricks - Keywording Search Engines

This is something I've just started to learn quite recently, and I love it. It is so incredibly useful for me while I'm using the internet.

Basically, whenever you do a search on a search engine, it will give a url in a format similar to this:

www.sitehere.com/search_[insert_search_term_here]

If you bookmark that page, set it to a keyword, and then replace [insert_search_term_here] with %s, it will search whatever you place after the keyword.

Let me use an example of the most common use I have for it: Searching the Grand Exchange Database.

First, I did a search for Bandos. Here's the page result:

http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/results.ws?query=bandos&price=all&members=

Note where it says bandos in the url. Bookmark that page result, and set it somewhere that doesn't clutter your favorites.

Now go back to it, right click, and choose Properties.

In the location field, find where bandos was located, and replace it with %s. If you do it right, the url should look like this:

http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/results.ws?query=%s&price=all&members=

Next, go down to the Keyword field. I chose to put ge as my keyword, since it's shorthand for Grand Exchange. You can change it to whatever you feel most comfortable with.

Then save the changes. From now on, all you need to do in order to search a price on Runescape, or see the prices in the past 30,90, or 180 days, just go to the address bar, and type "ge [item]". For instance, I can redo the bandos search by typing "ge bandos". Nice and simple. :)

This trick can be applied to any search engine. I have my browser set up to search Site Directories for music files when I type "music song.name.here", search youtube when I type "yt term here", and to search Runetracker by typing "rsc name here".