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by anonytrary 2456 days ago
I typically remember at least one or two keywords about any site I visit. Usually, typing these into the URL bar will turn up the desired website as a suggested result in Chrome.
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Yes, most of the time this might work, but it also might not. With Zapmarks you know exactly what you're getting because if the keyword doesn't match, it doesn't work. One example would be my Google Drive example, I have multiple accounts and deep link to each of them using their own keyword (drive, drive2, drivepersonal, etc) I know if I type that keyword, I will get right there.

With suggested results, you might get to the main Drive account but then will have to go through a series of steps to "switch accounts" to whatever account you're looking to access.

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The keyword idea would be a great fallback for the existing "suggested URL" function in Chrome.

I think it works as intended about 95% of the time. It'd be nice to be able to add to a simple Map<Keyword, Url> table that the "suggested URL" feature can use as a fallback.