Google Chrome Custom Search QueryBryan Nguyen, PharmD Candidate 2015 & Timothy Aungst, PharmD

Open Google Chrome

Open Settings

Click [Manage search engines…]

In another tab, run generic search in actual desired search engine; e.g., Lexicomp

Two things: First make sure you are searching via the schools resource. Second, It doesn’t matter what you search, you just need to generate a search URL for the next step.

Following search, copy the URL from the generic search

Under [Manage search engines…], input the search engine information

Under “URL with %s in place of query”, paste URL from search engine and replace generic search term with “%s” – then click [Done]

I would recommend putting an easy shorcut for searches, such as “Lexicomp” = Lexi, or “Micromedex” = Micro, “Dynamed” = Dyna, etc.

All that we are doing here is replacing the search item with “&s” to create the shortcut for future search terms. That’s why we are removing whatever you searched for before (in this example “generic”) and replacing it only.

In a new tab, type in ‘keyword’ used, spacebar, then search query desired

In this example, I typed in “Lexi” followed by “Space [Hitting the space bar once]” to open up the quick search – You may need to login via the libraries proxy server the first time using this method – Now you can run your drug search (Ex. Furosemide)

And there you have it! A quick way to ‘hack’ your browser to look up medical information instead of logging in directly to the proxy page and going through your library index all the time.

Similarly, in Firefox, open search engine, right click in search box, click “Add a keyword for this search…”

Enter desired keyword, then save

References and Related Readings:

• Reddit – LPT: Combine Chrome’s custom search engines with Google’s “Feeling lucky” to save tons of typing/clicking time

http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/2e0q0n/lpt_combine_chromes_custom_search_engines_with/

• Reddit – For Firefox: how to make your address [sic] bar also be a google search (like in chrome, also: encrypted search)

http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/2e0q0n/lpt_combine_chromes_custom_search_engines_with/

• WordReference.com – Two steps to faster search in Firefoxhttp://www.wordreference.com/tools/Firefox-search-shortcut.aspx