Technology

Wikipedia I would never do this for, but site:reddit.com or even just adding the word Reddit to the end of my search term has been my trick to finding good information for like 15 years now. It's more useful now than ever, despite how shitty reddit has gotten. Reddit's search is terrible though and searching the same thing using Reddit's search rarely gives good results.

That's not what I mean. I have a keyword like ‘wik’ set to take me to Wikipedia's search, and if I type ‘wik black pus’, i get the page for that term.

I also have an extension that shows a popup with buttons for different search engines whenever I select text on a page, and I have a similar thing on the phone for text shared from any app. Each of these methods has about twenty-seven sites configured in it. Considering that I look up things on these sites easily a dozen times a day, it's ridiculous to say that this doesn't save me time over opening each site.

(P.S.: This workflow also allows using the keyboard for keyword-triggered search, while the search interface on some sites is getting less accommodating and assumes me mousing around.)

Most (if not all) modern browsers support multiple search engines which are configurable and selectable from a dropdown in the omnibar. There's no need to remember dozens of shortcuts or add a dedicated toolbar anymore.