preface

A few days ago, a good friend of mine asked me for help, probably the problem is that his computer QQ can surf the Internet, but the browser is not Internet Explorer but Chrome, my first reaction may be DNS problem. Then sent a picture, good guy scared me, similar to the following picture

I took this picture myself, and it goes something like this

Modify the default search engine Settings

What is the default search engine

Chrome may be Google’s own son, but thanks to antitrust law, chrome still lets you change your browser’s default search engine. Of course, the default search engine here means that you can search for things directly from the address bar, without skipping to the corresponding website search, and you can right-click the text to pop up the shortcut search options

Address bar enter search

Right-click on the text pop-up menu


How do I change the default search engine

Open Chrome, select Settings from the three dots in the upper right corner, and select Search Engine Settings from Settings

Three dots in the upper right – Settings – Search engine Settings


Here you can choose the default search engine

Bench search engine

What is bench search engine

Bench search is a name I picked out of the blue, because I don’t know what it’s called. Let me explain what it means. It’s not the default search engine, but it can switch quickly when you need it

Demo bench search engine

The principle of

How does this work? All search site interstitials are Get requests, the request path is fixed, only the keyword you search changes.

For example, if Baidu searches for 1024, the path is www.baidu.com/s?wd=123

Another example is Baidu search 996, its path is www.baidu.com/s?wd=996

So for Baidu search, just replace wd= after the value can achieve fast search requirements, Chrome provides us with a very convenient switch bench search function.

I have listed here some of the web sites that I use more frequently

/ / https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%s / / / / jingdong https://search.jd.com/Search?keyword=%s&enc=utf-8&wq=%s taobao baidu https://s.taobao.com/search?q=%s/https://music.163.com/#/search/m/?s=%s/netease cloud / / weibo HTTP: / / http://s.weibo.com/weibo/%s?frm=opensearch / / / / worth buying https://search.smzdm.com/?c=home&s=%s zhihu HTTP: / / http://www.zhihu.com/search?q=%s / / / / B station http://www.bilibili.com/search?keyword=%s maven central warehouse HTTP: / / http://mvnrepository.com/search?q=%s&ref=opensearch / / P station (of course is not myself, Specially for you) https://www.pornhub.com/video/search?search=%sCopy the code

Set up the

  • Click here or click the red box in the image below

Click on the red box

This is the list of Settings screens

  • You can see the search engine already set up in the picture, click Add to add your own custom

Click add to pop up the page

  • So there’s a couple of input fields, and I’m going to explain each of them, but it’s important to determine how you search, right
    • The first input field, this is just a name, you can type it as long as you remember
    • The second input box, this is you in the address bar activate bench search engine keyword, input your keyword after clicking the space will enter the bench search engine. Lowercase letters are supported, but uppercase letters are not
    • The third is the format of the website, I have listed my commonly used in the above, if you have your own website, just search for something and change your keyword to %s
  • Click add can be used, this is very broad, the same website you can add more, for example, I generally baidu search I like to set BD, Baidu, Baidu can be activated. Press Esc to return to the default search engine.

After the speech

In fact, very simple, but very common functions, used to actually can not go back. I actually do not exclude Baidu, I use a lot of search engines, I think Baidu some of the localization of things to do some better, the accuracy will be higher, because they are his own website things, of course, this is not kua it, but helpless. I use other search engines too, but my only purpose is to solve my problems.

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