I use OpenDNS for DNS resolution (the way domain names match up to websites) on my home and office networks. My favorite feature is their URL Shortcuts. I have a bunch of them set up to quickly search various sites I use often:
| Keyword | Website |
|---|---|
| g | Google Search |
| gi | Google Image Search |
| gm | Google Maps |
| wiki | Wikipedia |
| imdb | Internet Movie Database |
| dict | Dictionary.com |
| esv | ESV Bible |
| gl | Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” Search |
| cache | Google Cache (just found this one here!) |
The idea is that you can type something like ‘esv gal 5 1‘ or ‘wiki cumberland valley‘ and be taken to the appropriate page, bypassing several pages you’d normally have to navigate through, like search results.
I was having trouble today with the next-to-last one on that list: the “I’m Feeling Lucky” search. But it looks like they fixed it while I was writing this post. Unless I clicked the actual “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on their front page, Google was just taking me to a search results page, even if I pasted in the google.com url I was redirected to for a split second.
I save a lot of time using these shortcuts. If you don’t use them already, why don’t you start now?
20/07/2008 at July 20, 2008 @ 3:47pm Permalink
I use OpenDNS too at home… but mainly because Charter’s DNS is teh suck. Never thought to use the shortcuts!