Launch Chrome with a keyword search using Run command in Windows

Question

I can run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" superuser.com to start Chrome and launch this particular website.

But instead of launching a website, I want to search for a keyword using the default search engine configured.

Note: I don't want to manually specify the search engine URL in Run command like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" www.google.com/search?q=hello+world.

Is there any command line argument or some trick to do this?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:16

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It seems that the thing you specify as the URL, doesn't really need to be a URL.

Then, you can easily do this:

chrome "? hello world"

The ? will prevent the browser from thinking it's a path, without interferring in the search keywords (as explained here).

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:16

Community

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answered Apr 27 '16 at 19:06

Hewbot

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '19 at 10:29

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start chrome "? <what you want to search>"

This works if start chrome works.

answered Apr 28 '19 at 10:29

Mudit Garg

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 24 '19 at 18:33

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For some reason, firefox does not take in "" as a search parameter it just opens ffox to the homepage. Probably missing something here though. A nice feature to run a quick query from the Address: toolbar

answered Aug 24 '19 at 18:33

Adan M

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