How to add custom search engines to Chrome

Custom search Engines helps in Developer Productivity also This is great if you search specific apps frequently like Jira, Medium

Srikanth Chebrolu
2 min readJul 12, 2021

Click on Search engine then click on Manage search engines, or go to this link in the chrome browser chrome://settings/searchEngines.

Now Click on Add

  • For Search engine text box, add the name of the site; for example, medium.
  • For Keyword text box, you can use anything you want. Google’s defaults tend to use the URL; for example, medium.com.
  • For URL text box, Go to the site you’re creating a search engine for, then search for something. I like to use something easy to spot, like Developer.

Copy the URL from the search bar, then head back to the Chrome settings tab and paste the URL. Finally, replace the search term Developer with %s. Like this:

Click Add, and you’re done. You’ve added a custom search engine to Chrome. Now type your keyword in the address bar to see the text Press Tab to search medium.com.

Press the Tab key, and you can run your search right in the address bar. You can also just type the keyword and press Space — it works the same.

Now you can search Medium without opening medium.com

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Srikanth Chebrolu

I am a web developer, Sr Software Engineer, currently living in Hyderabad, India. My interests range from technology to design and Photography