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 |