How to create search shortcut in Address bar

dac1

I am using 3.4.2066.106 (Stable channel) (64-bit).
I am looking for the ability to type a search nickname ("e" for ebay, "bb" for best buy, etc.) and have that take me to the respective site - without adding any specific search parameter after it. (As with "eb" speaker)

This currently works for Amazon by simply typing my assigned "a" & for YouTube by typing my assigned "y". All other search engines take me to my default search engine (duckduckgo)

Any ideas as to why this works on these two but not the others?

danielson

@dac1 - weird.

And what if you changed DDG's keyword?

derDay

@dac1
did you check your settings?

marked with the circle you can see which letter is used, change it at pointed line

did you know, that you can open any website in the same way? if you have saved a bookmark, you can assign a nickname which opens the bookmark. so you don't have to type the whole name/adress

nomadic

@dac1 said in How to create search shortcut in Address bar:

I am looking for the ability to type a search nickname ("e" for ebay, "bb" for best buy, etc.) and have that take me to the respective site - without adding any specific search parameter after it

So, for example, you aren't looking to directly search something on ebay, just go to ebay's site?

If that is the case, then it just sounds like you need to set up a nickname for the website's bookmark. Just go to vivaldi://bookmarks find and select the correct bookmark and edit the nickname field to "e" for the ebay example. Then it should work:

Hitting Enter with just "e" will then bring you to the bookmark.

Pesala

@dac1 I see similar, but not identical, results:

a Acronyms — Opens acronymfinder.com
d DuckDuckGo (Private) — d Opens Ecosia
e Ecosia (Default) — Opens Ecosia
f Free dictionary — Opens Ecosia
g Google — Opens Ecosia
m My website — Opens Ecosia
w Wikipedia — Opens Ecosia
y YouTube — Opens Ecosia

dac1

Thank you @derDay and @nomadic for your replies. Indeed, the solution was to create bookmark shortcuts which would allow me to navigate to a website page without searching for anything specific. Solved. Vivaldi gets cooler the more I learn of it's capabilities!