[electriclove]

Interesting.. I do something similar with the Search Engines setting in Chrome using Keywords which applies to what is typed in the omnibox.

a iphone -> searches for iphone on Amazon

w tiger -> searches for tiger on Wikipedia

You can also set up a new search engine/keyword. Example to set up Stack Overflow with the s keyword: https://stackoverflow.com/search?%s

So I can now type 's sort a string in python' and it will take me directly to https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=sort+a+string+in+python

[SirZimzim]

I tend to use the tab complete feature. Works on pretty much every site I ever use search . Just start typing the url and press tab.