Speed up Google Searches With This New Keyboard Shortcut
Google just released a great new keyboard shortcut that you can use to refine your searches, and while it won’t save you a week of time, it’s easier to use than scrolling back to the search bar, clicking on it and editing your query to launch a new one. Search.
The shortcut is simple and easy to remember: when you’re on the results page of any Google search, all you have to do is hit the “/” key on your keyboard – forward slash if you still don’t understand with another forward slash on your keyboard – and your the cursor will return to the search box and position itself at the very end of your query. You can then add or subtract words, add operators, or quickly press CTRL + A and delete to start over.
This trick doesn’t work when you initially load google.com , because it doesn’t have to; once you load the page, your cursor is already in the search box and you can type whatever you want. But when you do multiple searches to dig something up, this is a quicker way to refine your search until you find what you came for.
And while we do that, let’s give you some more shortcuts to speed up your search. Since you can use your browser’s address bar to run all Google searches instead of visiting the Google website, just press CTRL + E or CTRL + K when you want to search the web for something. who has already used any keyboard shortcut for another purpose (for example, adding a hyperlink to the text of a blog post), then your cursor will immediately move to an empty address bar so you can start searching.
I’ve tested this in Chrome, Edge Chromium and Firefox and it works great. However, if you are a Safari fan, you need to mix Command + L. The same is in macOS. If you press CTRL + L (or ALT + D) in Chrome, Edge Chromium, or Firefox, you go to the address bar and highlight everything in it – setting it up is a little different from clearing it all to perform a new search.