How to Add More Search Engines Manually to Google Chrome

Some web browsers have a feature that allows users to search directly from the URL address bar where you normally enter web addresses. Such browsers include Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Some of these browsers can only produce results from a particular search engine when used in this manner. For example, Firefox only produces Google results and Internet Explorer produces results from the default search engine (usually Bing).
Google Chrome on the other hand, allows you to search any website or use any search engine in the above manner. When Chrome is first installed, it comes with at least three search engines: Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search. Any of them can be used directly from the address bar and Google is set as the default. As you use Chrome to visit other search engines or websites and perform searches on them, it automatically captures their search engines to your local system. Consequently, you can use any of those new search engines right from your address bar and any of them can be set as the default search engine.
However, Chrome may not always capture every search engine but users can add search engines manually if they want. The following is how to add a search engine to Google Chrome.
How to Add a Search Engine to Google Chrome
1. Right-click inside the address bar and select "Edit search engines" from the menu that appears. 
2. In the new Search Engines window that appears, scroll down to find the "Add a new search engine" section and fill in the required fields. These fields include Name, Keyword and URL.
3. The Name of the search engine is the name by which it will be saved on Google Chrome. This is how it will be identified when you open the window to edit your search engines.
4. The Keyword is the word that will cause the Tab prompt to appear when you type it into the address bar. It can be any word but should be one that is related to the search engine. It is usual and advisable to simply use the site's URL such as "amazon.com".
Note: The Tab prompt appears to let you know that a website's search engine has been captured on Chrome and that you can search it from the address bar. When you press Tab, you can then enter your query.
5. The URL is the web address for search engine results. This is different from the website address. To get this URL, do the following:
- Visit the search engine you would like to add.
- Carry out a search. A simple one word search will suffice. At this point you can check to see if Google Chrome has saved the search engine to your system. Close the search engine's web page before you check. Check by following the steps above to display the Search Engines window. If the search engine is not saved to your browser, continue with the following.
- Copy and paste the web address of the search results into the URL field. Then replace the search term with "%s".
- For example, a search for the term "food" on Ask.com will produce this URL: 

 "http://www.ask.com/web?q=food&search=&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir". 

 Replace "food" with "%s". 

 Your final URL should be 

 "http://www.ask.com/web?q=%s&search=&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir".
- Click OK to save.
With the above steps you should have added a new search engine to Google Chrome. It is advisable when trying to obtain the URL for a search engine to carry out the search from the landing page of the search engine or homepage of the website if possible.

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