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Chrome tip: utilize the “search engines” list to add quick omnibar access to favorite sites, chrome pages (downloads,extensions, bookmarks), and more search engines.

Yubnub as the default is key (for me at least), learn a few quick prefixes and the whole web is immediately accessible and searchable. Sure, “g searchphrase” searches google through yubnub, but yubnub does take that extra second to redirect, so I add my most used yubnub prefixes as keyword searches to chrome, so “g searchphrase” goes direct to google. Yes, I have two entries for Google Maps. I sometimes add an “s” to “gmap”, and rather than try and fix my own habit, I just added another entry.

For those who love the Google Instant feature (in about:flags), it still works with non-google searches. 

Some of the URLs I use:

wikipedia  :  http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%s

google maps : http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s

google images : http://images.google.com/images?q=%s

yubnub : http://www.yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=%s

amazon : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?mode=blended&keyword=%s

downloads : chrome://downloads/

extensions : chrome://extensions/

bookmarks : chrome://bookmarks/