Hitkey

Hitkey is a Chrome extension developed by Eiji Muroichi. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Hitkey is 2.0.1, updated on 2013-02-19.
114 users have installed this extension. 9 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

Hit a key and Search.

Feb.17, 2013
Updated to version 2.0.0
- Sync your setting with Google account
- Improved UI
- Bug fix

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Google Chrome extension for the fastest web surfing.
Select any texts on a webpage then hit a configured key. New tab will open with the search results page by selected words. You can configure up to 10 keys for your favorite search engines.

Default setting:
g - Google
m - Google map
w - wikipedia
a - amazon.com
y - yelp.com

*This extension doesn't work If website you accessed already implements keyboard interaction, or the page used frame or iframe.
*It may not work if you already install extensions which uses keyboard event.

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To customize the setting, go to Preference>Extension>Hitkey Option, then paste a URL includes "{query}".

Configuration samples:

- Gmail
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/{query}

- Amazon.co.jp
http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/field-keywords={query}

- Twitter
https://twitter.com/#!/search/{query}

- Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q={query}

- ALC Web (English - Japanese dictionary)
http://eow.alc.co.jp/{query}/UTF-8/?ref=sa

- Google translate
http://translate.google.com/?text={query}