Well, I first looked in the right-click menu off the omnibox, because
I personally use search keywords frequently.  :)

But then when Matt_2 asked me how he would've found this, I clicked
around in the Options dialog until I found it.  I had remembered that
search keywords were related to search engines so seeing "Google" in
the select box made me guess the button next to it did something.

I think the heading "Default search:" makes me think that the button
to the right manages what my default search does.
If the button were labeled "Manage search keywords..." it would've
been obvious to me, I think, though that's probably too long for what
it does.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Scott Violet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm curious. Where did you expect to see bookmark keywords? Where did
> you look first?
>
>  -Scott
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Both Matt Cutts and Matt my roommate have recently been caught by
>> useless bookmark keywords.
>> Matt_1 wrote, in a list of things he didn't like about Chrome, 'If I
>> start typing "Google webmaster blog" into the Omnibox, it offers to
>> search Google for "webmaster blog"'.
>> Matt_2 asked me how timeanddate.com managed to grab all queries
>> starting with "time", thinking it was a vulnerability of some sort.
>>
>> I believe both of these were caused by importing search keywords from
>> Firefox.  In at least the latter case, Matt_2 was unaware that the
>> "time" keyword even existed on his Firefox (I think it might have been
>> part how Firefox was installed on his computer?).
>>
>> In both cases, the UI for managing these keywords was hidden enough
>> that they couldn't find it.  (I couldn't even find it myself when
>> Matt_2 asked me about it... the button is labeled "searches" or
>> something, which is not at all what I as looking for.  I knew to
>> right-click on the omnibox but that isn't at all obvious.)
>>
>> So, for discussion:
>> 1) is importing keywords harmful?  (I am pretty certain "ask the user
>> more questions when importing" *is* harmful.)
>> 2) how can we surface the fact that you can edit those keywords?
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>

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