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Search from the Location Bar - Saturday 18th December 04

One of the features of mozilla browsers is the location bar searching. It is very simple to set up, however, I don't really know of anyone else that has it set up. If for example, I wanted to search google for antidisinfectant. I would type in to my address bar: g antidisinfectant. If I wanted a definition I would type: d antidisinfectant.So how does it work? In my bookmarks I have a section called keywords. I have set the keyword to the letter I type before the word. If you type a keyword in to the location bar it puts whatever is after the keyword where %s appears in the location. Here is a list of keywords I have set up, the possibilities are endless tho.

I find it saves a lot of time using them. It also means you have no need for that google search box that sits at the side of your location bar.',blerb='How to use your locaton bar to search your favourite sites.

Google Search Terms - Sunday 5th December 04

I was looking through my stats and at the search term report to see what people had been typing in to google. One of the terms I thought was too common for me to be coming first with. So I googled it. Sure enough I am there. Under the search box apears:

"about" is a very common word and was not included in your search.

That is nothing unusual it always apears there. I then removed the 'about' from the search to see if I would come up again. Nope I was no where to be seen. So why if 'about' is not used do I apear there with it? and not without?