If you have search on IMDB before, your browser should be aware of its search engine. Type "imdb.com Batman Begins" in your omnibar and it should redirect you to the imdb search result for Batman Begins. You are able to customize the behavior of the omnibar to fit your needs.
Go to Options -> Basic -> under Default Search, press Manage. Now you have a list of search engines known to your browser. Mark imdb and press Edit... Here you are able to change what keyword you would like to use when searching with this search engine, e g "imdb" (without the quotation marks). Save your settings and try it out in the omnibar: "imdb Batman Begins<ENTER>" should take you directly to the imdb.com search page for Batman Begins. If imdb is not in the list of known search engines add it with the following settings: Name: imdb.com Keyword: imdb URL: http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%s On Dec 11, 5:35 pm, Isaiah Cisneroz <[email protected]> wrote: > As "hip" and "cool" as the omnibar search function is in Google Chrome > it isn't functional at all. After using Chrome for weeks I still won't > switch from Firefox just because of the time that I'm losing while > searching for things. Without a functional second search feature I am > losing time when searching for things. > > For example: in Firefox or even (gasp) Internet Explorer, when search > for information about the movie Batman Begins I would simply open up > my browser, go to the right search box, select IMDB, search for > "Batman Begins", then be directly taken to that movie page. Also in > Firefox I could simply go to the address bar and type in "Batman > Begins IMDB" and it takes me DIRECTLY to the IMDB Batman Begins page. > > In Chrome however, I type in "Batman Begins" or even "Batman Begins > IMDB" and I am still taken to a google search page. As Im sure this > helps google ad revenue and number of hits. It is losing functionality > for us, the developing community. > > If anyone help develop the wonderful chrome omnibar or think that it > needs a change please respond. -- Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss
