This presentation demonstrates how to use the Google Chrome web browser to easily search for medical information using your medical references without directly logging into your library resources all of the time.

1. Google Chrome Custom
Search Query
Bryan Nguyen, PharmD Candidate 2015 & Timothy Aungst, PharmD

2. Open
Google
Chrome

3. Open
Settings

4. Click
[Manage
search
engines…]

5. In another tab,
run generic
search in actual
desired search
engine; e.g.,
Lexicomp
Two things: First make sure you are
searching via the schools resource. Second,
It doesn’t matter what you search, you just
need to generate a search URL for the next
step.

6. Following
search, copy the
URL from the
generic search

7. Under
[Manage
search
engines…],
input the
search engine
information

8. Under “URL
with %s in
place of
query”, paste
URL from
search engine
and replace
generic search
term with
“%s” – then
click [Done]
All that we are doing here is replacing the
search item with “&s” to create the shortcut
for future search terms. That’s why we are
removing whatever you searched for before
(in this example “generic”) and replacing it
only.
I would recommend putting an easy shorcut
for searches, such as “Lexicomp” = Lexi, or
“Micromedex” = Micro, “Dynamed” = Dyna,
etc.

9. In a new tab,
type in
‘keyword’
used,
spacebar, then
search query
desired
In this example, I typed in “Lexi” followed by
“Space [Hitting the space bar once]” to
open up the quick search – You may need to
login via the libraries proxy server the first
time using this method – Now you can run
your drug search (Ex. Furosemide)

10. And there you have it! A quick way to ‘hack’
your browser to look up medical
information instead of logging in directly to
the proxy page and going through your
library index all the time.

11. Similarly, in
Firefox, open
search engine,
right click in
search box,
click “Add a
keyword for
this search…”

12. Enter desired
keyword,
then save

13. References and Related Readings:
• Reddit – LPT: Combine Chrome’s custom search engines with Google’s
“Feeling lucky” to save tons of typing/clicking time
http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/2e0q0n/lpt_combine_chro
mes_custom_search_engines_with/
• Reddit – For Firefox: how to make your address [sic] bar also be a google
search (like in chrome, also: encrypted search)
http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/2e0q0n/lpt_combine_chro
mes_custom_search_engines_with/
• WordReference.com – Two steps to faster search in Firefox
http://www.wordreference.com/tools/Firefox-search-shortcut.aspx