2002 November 21 Thursday
Google Labs And Google Keyboard Shortcuts

I found this interesting URL http://labs.google.com/cgi-bin/keys?q=101+mozilla&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=0&sa=N&fromkey=1 in my TechiePundit referral logs. Note the labs.google.com. Okay, so what is it? It appears to be a site where Google lets people try out new Google features. One thing they are trying out is support for Google results pages browser keyboard shortcuts. So if you bring up that URL above you can hit N to go to the next page of results and then hit P to go back to the previous page. If you hit the '?' key it will pop down a list of all the keyboard shortcut keys. This works for me with Mozilla 1.2b. I see in the keyboard shortcuts discussion group (see below) that someone has found it works on Opera 7 beta as well. I like the way one can hit keys 1 thru 9 to choose any one of the first 9 results to go to.

Also, the Google folks have discussion groups (am I like the only one who doesn't know this? - yeah I know about their Usenet groups support) where users discuss their experiences trying out new Google features. For instance, there is a discussion group for Google keyboard shortcuts.

Posted by Randall Parker at November 21, 2002 09:08 PM
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