The address bar at the top of the browser window in Google Chrome browser (that is also called Omnibox), can also be used as a search box. You can search any term by entering it in the address bar and then pressing Enter key; and the entered term will be searched using your default search engine that has been set in the Options in Google Chrome. Now, suppose you want to search a word or expression using a different search engine from your default search engine, then what? For doing so, one method is to visit the home page of such other search engine (such as yahoo.com) and then search the expression over there. However, in Google Chrome, you don’t need to go to the home page of the other search engines. Google Chrome allows you to directly search any word or expression from its address bar itself using any search engine of your choice (and not only the default search engine), and that too without changing your default search engine. Let’s see how to do it.
Setting or changing the default search engine:
Before I proceed further, let me explain as to how to set or change your default search engine in Google Chrome that the address bar should use by default for all your searches. To do so, proceed as under:
(1) Click on the Wrench (i.e., Tools) menu.
(2) Select Options, and then click the Basics tab.
(3) Select the desired search engine from the “Default search” drop-down list box and then click Close. See the image below:
Searching directly from address bar using any search engine (which may be different from the default search engine):
For the sake of this article, I’ve presumed that you’ve set “Google Search” as the default search engine in Google Chrome using the above procedure.
Now suppose you want to search any word or expression in Google Chrome using this default search engine (i.e., Google Search); it should be very simple. Simply enter the word or expression in the address bar (which also doubles up as search box in Google Chrome) and then press Enter key. That’s it! You’ll see the search results from your default search engine.
However, now suppose you want to search the same expression directly from the address bar in Google Chrome, using a different search engine, say Yahoo or Bing, then what to do? As mentioned above, Google Chrome makes it possible to directly search from its address bar even if you want to search using a different search engine than your default search engine. Let’s see how to do it.
(1) Suppose you want to search “strong password” using Yahoo! Search engine.
(2) Type yahoo.com in the address bar of Google Chrome. Now type a space (i.e., press spacebar once) and then press the Tab key. You’ll notice that the address bar now displays “Search Yahoo!:” as shown in the following figure:
(3) Now, Google Chrome is ready to search directly using Yahoo! Search. So, type your search expression such as “strong password” and the address bar appears as under:
(4) Now, simply press Enter key. Google Chrome will show the search results using Yahoo! search engine this time.
That’s it!
In a similar manner, you can search directly from the address bar of Google Chrome for other search engines such as Bing, Ask, or AOL as well. Look what you’ve to do for searching in these search engines:
As I’ve already mentioned, this shortcut method can be used if you want to search an expression directly from address bar of Google Chrome using some search engine different from its default search engine. If you want to search something using the default search engine, then as mentioned above, the method is simpler; you can just enter your search expression in the address bar and press Enter key and you’ll get the search results.
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