More awesomeness from Yahoo
Lifehacker has discovered for me, Yahoo! Open Shortcuts. Yahoo Search blog has a post about it. And here is Yahoo’s Help page for Open Shortcuts.
I’m so excited I can barely write…
From Yahoo’s page:
How do I use it?
Type an ! (exclamation point) followed by the name of the shortcut in the Yahoo! Search box.
!shortcut_name
Examples:
!my to navigate to “http://my.yahoo.com”
!wsf to search “weather san francisco” on Yahoo!For shortcuts that search favorite sites or start an Internet application, you can also type optional term(s) after the shortcut name.
!shortcut_name term(s)
Examples:
!ebay lamps to search for “lamps” on Ebay
!mail bill@yahoo.com to send email to “bill@yahoo.com”
You can make your own shortcuts (otherwise it would be pretty worthless), but it does require you to have a Yahoo account (not all that surprising). For those people who use Firefox, LifeHacker points out that you can now hit Ctrl+K to jump to the built-in search bar, then type any of your shortcuts to navigate around the web. Less repetitive stress from mousing around everywhere! Long live keyboad navigation!
