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Bookmark a Search Field

Question: How can I quickly access a commonly-used search site?

Answer: The web browser Mozilla Firefox, an increasingly-popular alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer, contains the useful ability to bookmark search fields on websites. This allows you to quickly access them via shortcuts, without even having to visit the sites themselves.

To add a shortcut for a search site, first open the website in Firefox - for example, the image search on Google (www.google.com/images). Now right-click on the text field where you type what you want to search for, then click on "Add a Keyword for this Search...". In the window that appears, type a descriptive Name (E.g., "Google Images"), then a short word or abbreviation for the Keyword (E.g., "images").

Now, to search in Google images, you would simply click in the address bar in Firefox and type "images search text," replacing "search text" with whatever you wanted to search for.

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