Search Google Drive from Chrome Address Bar

Just to clarify, the address bar, aka Omnibox is the place at the top of your browser where you enter a URL. Most browsers have a built in search engine of some flavor as a default search. In chrome, for most OS's, it's Google. Have you ever wanted or needed to quickly search your Google drive for a document? Here is how to add a "search Google drive" option from the Omnibox.

These directions are for Chrome.

1) right click the Omnibox, and select "Edit Search Engine."

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2) Scroll down in the pop up window

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Find the add new option.

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3) In the first box, type a unique name, for example "Drive Search"
4) In the next box, type in a combination of letters to trigger the search. I use "dri"
5) then paste this in the url https://drive.google.com/#search/%s

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6) click Done.

Then test it out. Open a new tab, type the letters dri then hit the space bar. It change to a unique search engine. Then type the name of the doc you are looking for and watch Google search your drive for you.


Here is a quick tutorial.