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My favourite is the domain tab completion automatic site search recognition thing. Chrome users know what I'm talking about. It's fantastic.

EDIT: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/tab-to-search

Basically I can type the first few characters of a domain until it autocompletes, then hit tab, then enter a search term which is submitted to that site's own search form, which chrome picked up when I went to the site, using various heuristics.

This is good, but not nearly as good as manually setting single character "keywords" for common searches.

use the search enough times and you can use single character+ <tab>

Works well until you want to distinguish between searching en.wikipedia.org and en.wiktionary.org.

(While writing this I realized I didn't actually remember the exact domain Wikipedia and Wiktionary used... so I ran a "test" search on both.)

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