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Site Search

Site search enables you to search on various sites directly from the browser’s search bar. The implementation is rather low tech but it is useful for both remembering high-quality search engines and avoid having to navigate to a site first in order to use its search engine.

To add a site search to your browser, in this case Brave or Chrome, go to the settings page and search for “Site Search” or copy paste this: brave://settings/searchEngines?search=Site+Search.

I primarily use site search for translations, dictionary lookup, NPM search, Github search and occasionally Hacker News search. Here are a few of my most used site searches:

Name Shortcut URL
Linguee German li https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=%s
Deepl de https://www.deepl.com/translator#en/de/%s
NPM npm https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=%s
Github gh https://github.com/search?q=%s&type=repositories
Hacker News hn https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%s&sort=byPopularity&type=story