If you’d like to quickly search your favorite sites, and even search the current site using Google Chrome, here’s how.

Illustration: Gordon McAlpin

• Click the Wrench icon in the upper right
• Click Options
• Click Manage Search Engines…
• Under Other Search Engines, you’ll find a list populated with all the sites you’ve visited that have search functions. In the middle text box for each, erase the URL and type one letter or a few letters. For example, for amazon.com, type a in the middle column.
• Then, under Add a New Search Engine, enter Current Site in the first column, cs in the second column, and paste this code in the third column:

javascript:void(location.href=’//www.google.com/search?q=%s&domains=’+location.hostname+’&sitesearch=’+location.hostname)

Now, up in the URL text box at the top of your Chrome window, press one of your shortcut keys you just made and press Space. Then, enter a search, and Chrome will automatically search that site. Often, this Google-powered search is better and more feature-rich than the search built in to the site itself! Remember, cs and Space will do a Google search of the current site. Awesome.

Thanks to reader Jay M. for suggesting this tip!