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Custom Keywords create shortcuts to URLs that you type on the Location bar of your Mozilla or Firefox browser window. For more information please see a great tutorial. Also read the original announcement, and this blog entry from joeyday.com.
A quick rundown of how they work. In Mozilla or Firefox, right click on the link, and create a bookmark and give it a name. Go into your bookmark manager view the properties of the bookmark that you just created. In the “keyword” field insert a unique name for the bookmark (the shorter the better), for instance for the Google Image bookmark I just use ‘gi’.
NOTE: If you are an IE user try kwargs (http://www.kwargs.com). It is a free plugin for Firefox & IE that offers this same functionality with over 8,000 presets. You can also create custom presets and they are saved on the web - handy if you use multiple computers.
To use these bookmarks just go to your address bar, and type ‘gi <keyword>’ and it will open Google images and search for the keyword(s) that you specified.
TODO: Go to this page and leech all their cool links. Don’t miss all the links to other sites with more leeching links. Incorporate these links :) – adding credit where due.
TODO: Set unique keywords for each Link, seperate using a double dash “–“, as in the first example.
The following alternate URL returns images of all sizes (for instance, drop “small|” to not return small images), returns only color images (default includes B&W and grey-scale images), and does not filter out “similar” images: http://images.google.com/images?q=%s&imgsz=small|medium|large|xlarge|xxlarge&imgc=color&sa=N&filter=0
The following URL takes the search query and redirects to the website: eg. searching for “ubuntu” would redirect you to ubuntu’s site: Google “Browse by name” – gn – http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=%s
