[PowerToys Run] - Customizable web search

[themisir]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

Imagine you need to search something very quickly using PowerToys Run. You pressed Alt + Space, and you need to open your browser first then search on url bar. but instead I think we might use PT Run to launch websites as well as applications by typing some queries like: bing microsoft build. And it opens bing search result for microsoft build.

To customize web search, user might define prefixes and query url for the service.

Prefix	Url
yt	https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query={0}
bing	https://www.bing.com/search?q={0}
google	https://www.google.com/search?q={0}

I think users must be able to modify this list to add/edit/remove items.

For example when I type something like:

bing microsoft career

It should open this url on my default browser:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=microsoft+career

Proposed technical implementation details

You could check out this wox plugin for example.

Protip

Aslo, a note for myself

Power users could also use duckduckgo's "I'm feeling lucky" like service to directly search and redirect to first item.

Prefix	Url
web	https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ducky+{0}

Source

So when we execute queries like web powertoys it will open this repo on our browser.

[jyuwono]

Closing this as a duplicate of #3245