How do I teach Chrome's omnibar to search in Google Maps?

Question

It seems that the only site on the web that is unavailable for search via Chrome's omnibar is Google's own Maps. Is there any way I could teach the omnibar to search Google Maps?

Answer 1

You'll have to add a custom search engine. Click on Chrome Menu → Options → Basics → Manage Search Engines. Under Add other search engine, add the following:

• Name: Google Maps
• keyword: maps.google.com
• URL: https://www.google.com/maps/search/%s

Now, type maps (and hit tab) followed by the keyword will search for the keyword in Google Maps.

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Answer 2

In my case, this was because there was a custom search engine from ages ago.

• Go to custom search engines (Chrome Menu → Settings → Search Engine → Manage Search Engines)
• Scroll to or find maps.google.com in the (inner) search box
• Click the more button on the far right
• Click "Remove from list"

Next time I searched on Google Maps, everything started working as expected.