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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Newsgroups: news.admin.peering
Subject: Re: Request Nova BBS add easier-to-remember search URL links for
 Usenet article lookups
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:13:23 -0500
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On 3/20/24 02:33, Andrew wrote:
> No big deal but I do not understand Grant's suggestion above.
> What's a "search shortcut" and which "client" is Grant talking about?

Custom search engines (or some nomenclature like that) used to be what 
they were called in Firefox.

Now they seem to be bookmarks with keywords.

I have the following bookmark in Firefox:

    Name:  USPS Tracking
     URL:  https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=%s
Keyword:  usps

So any time I type "usps " (trailing space is important) in the address 
bar it changes and indicates that it's doing a search and then replaces 
the "%s" in the URL (from the bookmark) with whatever I type after the 
URL in the address bar.

So  you could have something like:

    Name:  NovaBBS
     URL:  https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?group=%s
Keyword:  nova

So that any time you type "nova news.admin.peering" the web browser goes 
to the following URL:

 
https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?group=news.admin.peering



-- 
Grant. . . .