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Create a keyword search function for Safari

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Friday December 14, 2007. 05:30 PM
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I really miss the keyword feature of Firefox when I use Safari. For those who don't know it, it allows to define keywords, like for example img and link it to a search engine, for example, images.google.com. You just have to type img dog in the address bar to get the results of Google Image directly, without even going to the query page. I have written the following AppleScript to get a similar behaviour using Safari.When run, the script will ask you for a query string. The first word is the keyword, the rest are the parameters. For example, type gg Macos to search for Macos in Google, or img cats dogs to search for cats dogs on Google Images. Here's the code:
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