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Make "GoogleYear" the default search engine?

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qbertprime
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http://www.theflexguy.com/2013/05/16/how-to-create-a-default-date-range-for-google-search/

The above link describes how to make Chrome search Google by default for ONLY THE LAST YEAR. In today's age, older information is usually irrelevant.

This link does the trick: https://www.google.com/search?tbs=qdr:y&q=%s, but I'm hoping to simply make it do this by default (from the Awesome Bar).

Thank you!

http://www.theflexguy.com/2013/05/16/how-to-create-a-default-date-range-for-google-search/ The above link describes how to make Chrome search Google by default for ONLY THE LAST YEAR. In today's age, older information is usually irrelevant. This link does the trick: https://www.google.com/search?tbs=qdr:y&q=%s, but I'm hoping to simply make it do this by default (from the Awesome Bar). Thank you!

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I don't remember what prompted me to create this 13 months ago, but I have a page that will generate Google search plugins with your choice of date ranges. The names are ugly, but...

https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/googletime.php

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Happy112
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Hi   !
If you want Google to be your default search engine, you can do that as follows  : 3-bar menu => Options => Search Under   'Default Search Engine'   you can set Google to be your default search engine.

cor-el
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See also:

You can inspect the built-in default search engine by pasting this chrome URI in the location/address bar

  • chrome://browser/locale/searchplugins/
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I don't remember what prompted me to create this 13 months ago, but I have a page that will generate Google search plugins with your choice of date ranges. The names are ugly, but...

https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/googletime.php

qbertprime
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cor-el said

See also: You can inspect the built-in default search engine by pasting this chrome URI in the location/address bar
  • chrome://browser/locale/searchplugins/

Hello! Thank you so much Cor-el! However, my original post may have made it seem more like I knew what I was doing than I actually do... That said, no problem installing the add-on, but now what? Thank you so much!

qbertprime
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jscher2000 said

I don't remember what prompted me to create this 13 months ago, but I have a page that will generate Google search plugins with your choice of date ranges. The names are ugly, but... https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/googletime.php

Wowwowwow!!!!! Amazing, ingenious, really really good. PLEASE MAKE THIS AN OFFICIAL ADD-ON! You deserve the credit, and [hopefully] the CASH! Really, really good. Thank you so much!!!