I just noticed something in firefox that seems handy.

If I use the "Organize Bookmarks" option, there's a "Quick Searches"
folder, where each bookmark also has a keyword.  Apparently, if you
enter that keyword into the location bar, anything that follows get
substituted into that bookmark in place of the %s you can put into the
bookmark itself.

More specifically, if you use "New Bookmark" from this window, you can
create bookmarks like this (you don't have to put them in the Quick
Searches folder, but neatness seems to suggest that they should go
there if that's their purpose).

So, for example, I created a new bookmark andd gave it the properties:

Name: J software

Location: http://google.com/search?q=site:jsoftware.com+%s

Keyword: j

Description: Type "j <stuff>" in the location bar to search jsoftware's site

And, now, I can type   j copula locale   in the location bar, and get a list
of relevant J pages...

I've also created a jhelp keyworded bookmark with location
http://google.com/search?q=site:jsoftware.com+inurl:help+%s
and a jdict keyworded bookmark with location
http://google.com/search?q=site:jsoftware.com+inurl:dictionary+%s

I have also thought about make a jwiki, but frankly most of the
time I'm interested in the wiki I am also interested in anything
anywhere else on J's site.  More useful to me would be if I could
figure out a reliable way to search for J programming related
content on other sites...

FYI,

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Raul
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